Pia Knigge

• Auburn University at Montgomery

The role of formal education in the reduction of prejudice of, and intolerance toward, members of a different race, ethnicity or national origin, religion, gender, social status and sexual orientation has long been recognized by social and political psychologists. Higher education, i.e., college education, for example exposes students to diversity...

While students of political tolerance often view tolerance decisions as a trade-off between opposing values (civil liberties versus other values), there have been few explicit attempts to formulate and test such a multiple-values model. With rare exception, researchers typically examine linkages between tolerance judgments and a single value conste...

In the preceding argument, Miller and his colleagues leveled strong charges against our multiple values approach to the study of political intolerance. Distilled to its essence, their critique focused on three elements our study: (1) they claimed an inability to replicate our results; (2) they challenged the appropriateness of our measurement proto...

This study traces the evolution of right-wing extremism, conceptualized as latent electoral support for extreme right-wing parties (i.e., vote intention), in six Western European countries (i.e., Belgium, France, the Netherlands, West Germany, Denmark, and Italy) between 1984 and 1993. Employing a pooled time-series cross-sectional research design,...