Entry:

Barnum, David G. and Sullivan, John L., "The Elusive Foundations of Political Freedom in Britain and the United States," Journal of Politics, 52 (August, 1990), 719-739.


Abstract:

Political freedom in Great Britain and America doesn't result from widespread public tolerance or apathetic public intolerance, but is undergirded by political elites, who hold it as an ideal, and constitutional machinery.

GSS Years:

1978, 1986

Other Data Sets:

MORI 1986; ORC 1987

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