Original scientific paper

Political Tolerance of Unpopular Groups in Croatia

Vladimir Vujčić ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Tolerance is among the most crucial social and political values in the theory of liberal virtues. There are two basic ways of exploring political tolerance. One is investigating tolerance of the generally unpopular groups in the society (see S. Stouffer, 1955) and the other of the personally objectionable (least respected) groups (see J. Sullivan 1979). We have attempted to look into the tolerance of generally unpopular groups - fascists, communists and "Yugoslavs". The result of the poll showed that among young Croatians (secondary-school students and university students) there is a high level of tolerance of communists and fascists (generally unpopular groups), since the percentage is higher than the so called democratic majority. It is worth noting that the tolerance of the same group was lower when the poll participants themselves chose these groups as personally objectionable (i.e. least respected) ones. Education (regarding the tolerance of communists) and sex (regarding the tolerance of fascists) proved to have had a significant influence on the results of the poll.

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Hrčak ID:

110947

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/110947

Publication date:

5.9.1994.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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