The Dimensions of Tolerance: What Americans Believe about Civil Liberties

by Herbert McClosky and Alida Brill

Book Overview

Reaching well beyond traditional categories of analysis, McClosky and Brill have surveyed civil libertarian attitudes among the general public, opinion leaders, lawyers and judges, police officials, and academics. They analyze levels of tolerance in a wide range of civil liberties domains first amendment rights, due process, privacy, and such emerging areas as women's and homosexual rights and along numerous variables including political participation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871545918
• ISBN13: 9780871545916
• Release Date: November 1983
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 522 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"