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Gallay, Leslie; Flanagan, Constance A.; Duo, Samuel – Youth & Society, 2011
This exploratory study assessed the associations of age, gender, and a school climate of solidarity and pride with adolescents' endorsements of democratic regime change. Middle- and high-school students (N = 273) in the United States responded to three vignettes concerning how a society should transition from dictatorship to democracy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Global Approach, Change
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Ranade, Wendy; Norris, Pippa – Youth and Society, 1984
One hundred ninety-nine American and 204 British university students were surveyed. They shared similar, strongly positive attitudes towards democratic "rules of the game," such as free speech, the role of law, and equality. But Americans showed a greater trust of government and a stronger sense of being able to affect the political…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Democracy, Democratic Values
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Dash, Shrikant; Niemi, Richard G. – Youth and Society, 1992
Surveys of attitudes toward multiculturalism of 190 Canadian eleventh graders, 584 eleventh graders from the United States, and 350 tenth graders from India indicate that despite general agreement with socialized abstract principles of democracy, students in the United States and Canada are not very tolerant of divergent cultural perspectives.…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Democracy, Democratic Values