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Title:Political tolerance in South Africa: self-discrepancy and change
Authors:Riggle, Ellen
Gouws, AmandaISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies
Volume:30
Issue:2
Pages:149-163
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:attitudes
political attitudes
political change
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0258934032000147273
Abstract:Individuals have a representation of how they personally feel about issues ('actual' feelings), as well as a representation of the attitudes that they believe they should 'ideally' possess, reflecting personal values. Furthermore, existing in a social-political environment, individuals make estimations of how they believe others around them think that they 'ought' to feel. These different representations of self may conflict, especially where external constraints on political actions are present. A survey of self-discrepancies before and after the change in political system in South Africa tests whether the change in regime and possible political behaviours impacted on actual, ideal, and ought attitudes about general democratic principles and their application to specific positively and negatively evaluated groups. The study uses data collected in 1991 and 1997 from white Afrikaner students enrolled in second-year political science courses at the University of Stellenbosch. The results of the study indicate that while respondents are prepared to support the general principles of tolerance they deviate from it at least in part due to ideology or partisanship. Furthermore, self-discrepancy lessened between 1991 and 1997, possibly due to the change in regime. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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