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The Many Faces of Tolerance: Attitudes Toward Diversity in Poland
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The Many Faces of Tolerance

In her excellent book, Ewa Golebiowska presents the pervasiveness of prejudice in a country where the Holocaust took place. This superbly written and thorough survey of religious, ethnic and sexual hatred paradoxically conveys a positive message: the younger and more educated cohorts bring hope for the more tolerant Poland of tomorrow.

Michael Bilewicz, University of Warsaw

What is the meaning of pluralism in a place where virtually everyone is ethnically Polish and Catholic? How can we explain (and stop) intolerance and violence against ethnic, religious and sexual minorities? The Many Faces of Tolerance investigates these key social and political issues through detailed examinations of survey data on contemporary Poles attitudes towards various Othersreal or imagined. Most importantly, Golebiowska identifies the causal structure behind different sub-groups (in)tolerance of specific minorities. This insightful book thus provides not only a more complete and nuanced portrait of intolerance in Poland, but also sheds light on the causes and mechanisms motivating conflict or harmony more generally.

Genevive Zubrzycki, University of Michigan

This book presents a systematic account on Poles attitudes toward ethnic, religious, political, and sexual minorities. It investigates Polands reputation as an intolerant, anti-Semitic, and homophobic country. Counter to a simplistic image of Poland as a hotbed of intolerance, the book shows that Polish intolerance has many faces. For one thing, Poles attitudes toward diversity vary from one group to another. For another, the extent to which Poles attitudes are more or less negative depends on the right or activity they are asked to support and who the respondents happen to be. The book is the most comprehensive and empirically sophisticated synthesis of Poles attitudes toward diversity to date. Previous research tends to describe Poles attitudes toward a single minority at a time and only examines subgroup differences in their thinking about diversity.

The Many Faces of Tolerance is a multi-faceted analysis of Poles sentiments toward historically and currently discriminated against groups that assesses Poles acceptance of different minorities and authoritatively analyzes its sources. As part of this endeavor, the book develops a ranking of influences on Poles tolerance, undertakes a forecasting of future changes in tolerance in Poland, and proposes practical strategies to ameliorate existing intolerance.

Ewa A. Golebiowska is an associate professor of political science at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She specializes in political psychology and political behavior, with a particular interest in public opinion on civil rights and liberties. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals, including The Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Polish Sociological Review, and East European Politics and Societies.

Routledge Studies in Political Psychology

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Advisory Board: Ted Brader, University of Michigan; Eugene Borgida, University of Minnesota; Marc Ross, Bryn Mawr College; and Linda Skitka, University of Illinois, Chicago

Routledge Studies in Political Psychology was developed to publish books representing the widest range of theoretical, methodological, and epistemological approaches in political psychology. The series is intended to expand awareness of the creative application of psychological theory within the domain of politics and foster deeper appreciation of the psychological roots of political behavior.

1 The Many Faces of Tolerance

Attitudes Toward Diversity in Poland

Ewa A. Golebiowska

First published 2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Golebiowska, Ewa.
The many faces of tolerance : attitudes toward diversity in Poland /

Ewa Golebiowska.

pages cm. (Routledge studies in political psychology)

1. TolerationPoland. 2. PrejudicesPoland. 3. Cultural pluralismPoland. 4. PolandSocial conditions. 5. PolandEthnic relations. I. Title.

HM1271.G648 2014
179.9dc23
2013048455

ISBN: 978-0-415-81852-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-37452-8 (ebk)

Typeset in Sabon
by Apex CoVantage, LLC

To the memory of my maternal grandmother

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Many thanks to Cindy Thomsen, social psychologist and friend extraordinaire, Howie Lavine for his most helpful comments on earlier drafts of the book, and the anonymous reviewers for their feedback. Thanks to Eva Konofalski for her help with coding some open-ended data and to Jennie Sweet-Cushman for listening to my whining that writing the book has occasionally provoked. Ms. Renata Gierbisz, of CSPO, was instrumental in facilitating my access to some of the data I have used. No words can express my appreciation for my amazing friends supportAnca Vlasopoloss, Anthony Ambrogios, and Lainie Shifmans. I would be remiss in not mentioning my department chairs and friends, Dan Gellers, support in this and other instances. Extra biscuits, finally, for my four-legged child, Layla, and sorrowful thanks to her now gone sister, Shiloh, for their constant out-pouring of love and affection that kept me sane (most of the time) during the process of writing this book.

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Introduction

Polandan almost uniformly Catholic and ethnically Polish country, which experienced a lengthy period of authoritarian rule in the post-WWII period has a reputation for being intolerant, anti-Semitic, and homophobic. For better or worse, this reputation is an important part of Polands country stereotype. Like all stereotypes, country stereotypes can be conceptualized as generalized beliefs that contain at least a kernel of truth (so one theory goes). Be that as it may, even if the stereotype is somewhat accurate in this case, this alone tells us little about the climate of tolerance and intolerance faced by minority groups and individuals in present-day Poland.

My principal goal in this book is to confront the stereotype of Polish intolerance with the reality of attitudes captured in nationally representative public opinion surveys and thereby systematically shed light on the attitudes of Poles toward several political minorities. In addition to describing Polish attitudes and outlining some changes that may have taken place in those attitudes over time since Polands democratization began, I also investigate the etiology of tolerance in different domains in order to draw broad conclusions about the dynamics of tolerance in contemporary Poland. To these ends, this book relates the results of my systematic examination of Polish attitudes toward national, ethnic, and religious minorities, women, political dissenters, and gays and lesbians. Women are included in this investigation because, even though they are a numerical majority in Poland, they nonetheless constitute a political minority in both elective and appointive office.

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