Entry:

Davis, James A., "Attitudes Toward Free Speech in Six Countries in the Mid-1980s: Australia, Austria, Great Britain, Italy, The United States, and West Germany," European Sociological Review, 6 (May, 1990), 1-14. Also appears in Attitudes to Inequality and the Role of Government, edited by J.W. Becker, James A. Davis, Peter Ester, and Peter P. Mohler. Rijswijk: Social and Cultural Planning Office, 1990.

Abstract:

Though all nations support rights for basic protests and oppose extreme action, they are inconsistent on where to draw the line and on what things they will and will not tolerate. Australians and Britons support non striking protesters, Americans tolerate racists relatively, Germans and Austrians tolerate revolutionaries meetings but not marches, and Italians tolerate strikes over revolutionaries and racists.

GSS Years:

1985

Other Data Sets:

ISSP 1985; Institute for Social Research, York University 1987; Institute for Sociological Research, Soviet Academy of Sciences 1988

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:
Variable Name	Variable Label

PROTEST1	ALLOW PUBLIC MEETINGS PROTESTING GOVT.
PROTEST2	ALLOW PUBLICATIONS PROTESTING GOVT.
PROTEST3	ALLOW DEMONSTRATIONS PROTESTING GOVT.
PROTEST4	ALLOW OCCUPATION OF GOVT OFFICE.
PROTEST5	ALLOW DAMAGE OF GOVT BUILDINGS.
PROTEST6	ALLOW NATIONAL ANTI-GOVT STRIKE.
REVPUB	ALLOW REVOLUTIONARIES TO PUBLISH BOOKS.
REVSPEAK	ALLOW REVOLUTIONARY PUBLIC MEETINGS.
REVTCH15	ALLOW REVOLUTIONARIES TO TEACH CHILDREN.
RACSPEAK	ALLOW RACISTS TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS.
RACTCH15	ALLOW RACISTS TO TEACH 15 YR. OLDS.
RACPUB	ALLOW RACISTS TO PUBLISH BOOKS.