It's Good To Talk: Talk, Disagreement and Tolerance

British Journal of Political Science

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 677-698

  Pattie, C J ^a   Johnston, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 69649107777     PISSN: 00071234     EISSN: 14692112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007123408000331     Document Type: Article

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23. This is not to suggest that the 46 per cent who said they did not discuss politics ‘sometimes’ or ‘often’ with any of their main discussants never talked about politics at all. While 68 per cent of this group named no discussants at all, and 9 per cent said they never talked politics with any of their discussants, 23 per cent reported that they discussed politics with their named discussants but ‘seldom’ did so. This means that 35 per cent of BES respondents reported no political conversations whatsoever, a figure comparable to the 26 per cent of 1992 British Eurobarometer respondents reported by S. E. Bennett, R. S. Flickinger and S. L. Rhine, ‘Political Talk Over Here, Over There, Over Time’, British Journal of Political Science, 30 (2000), 99-119, p. 102.
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