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100	1		_aGIBSON, James L _914720
245	1	0	_aBecoming tolerant? Short-term changes in Russian political culture
260			_c2002
520	3		_aThrough ordinary Russian have embraced many aspects of democratic culture, their learning to tolerate their political enemies has been the most difficult democratic lesson for many. In this article, I analyse change in political tolerance in Russia, using panel data I collected in 1996 and 1998 in a nationally representative sample of Russians. Two bodies of theory are considered to generate hypotheses about change: the conventional cross-setional model of the aetiology of tolerance; and experiential theory, based on perceptions of the erformance of both the economic and political systems. The dynamic charater of the model is provided by perceptions of the performance of the economy, of the political system and of the seriousness of the crime problem in Russia. Many of my findings are unexpected. For instance, tolerance seems to beget tolerance, in the sense that, over time, who are tolerant tend to perceive diminishing threats from their political enemies. Yet threat perceptions are sustained by perceptions of the political and economic conditions in contemporary Russia. Perceptions of the change in crime are especially important since they seem to exacerbate perceptions of political threat, thereby eroding both political tolerance and support for democratic institutions and process. Paradoxically, threat is also sustained by democratic values - those who support democratic instituions and processes are more likely to perceive threats fro their political enemies, a finding peculiar to the unsettled Russian case. Thus, this analysis goes some distance towards discovering the causes of changes in both Russian tolerance and intolerance
773	0	8	_tBritish Journal of Political Science _g32, 2, p. 309-334 _d, 2002 _w
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998			_a20020919 _bLucima _cLucimara
998			_a20060511 _b1120^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c7244 _d7244
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