Preaching Conservative Ideas: 7 Tolerance Experiments in Norway, Sweden, and Germany

Seven classical tolerance experiments conducted in Norway, Sweden, and Germany between 2020 and 2022 by Lise Bjånesøy. The data captures non-Muslim responses to Muslims exercising freedom of assembly to preach conservative religious values. It includes survey responses and background characteristics alongside Stata replication code.

Use Cases

• Testing the 'speech-act' theory by comparing reactions to preaching versus the content of conservative ideas
• Cross-national analysis of civil liberty support using the Norway, Sweden, and Germany country identifiers
• Modeling the influence of 'background characteristics' on respondent tolerance for religious freedom of assembly

Strengths

• 7 distinct classical tolerance experiments
• Multi-country coverage including Norway, Sweden, and Germany
• Includes Stata replication code (.do files) and raw data (.csv)

Limitations

• Geographic bias toward Northern and Central Europe
• Focus is limited to attitudes toward a single religious minority (Muslims)
• Specific sample sizes per experiment are not provided in the summary

Provenance

Source

Lise Bjånesøy, DataverseNO

Collection Method

Survey experiments

Time Range

2020-2022

Freshness

Data collection concluded in 2022; last metadata update recorded as March 2026.

Geography

Norway, Sweden, Germany