Political Tolerance in the Global South

Sten Widmalm is Professor in the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Decentralisation, Corruption and Social Capital: From India to the West and Kashmir in Comparative Perspective: Democracy and Violent Separatism in India.

• Preface1. Political tolerance in plural societies2. Understanding paths to political tolerance in multicultural societies3. Fragile modernization in liberal India4. Political tolerance in multi-conflictual Pakistan5. Political tolerance and one-party dominated UgandaConclusionsAppendixBibliographyIndex

‘Issues of freedom of speech, state surveillance and social tolerance have become increasingly vexed in both developed democracies and the global south. This work is therefore a timely contribution. The extensive survey material drawn from India, Pakistan and Uganda challenges a number of accepted insights into the conditions which encourage political tolerance.’ Ian Talbot, University of Southampton, UK‘In Political Tolerance in the Global South: Images of India, Pakistan and Uganda, Sten Widmalm has provided much-needed and rarely available data on how people view the political "other" (...) However, you interpret the findings of the experiment mapped out in the book, it is valuable thinking and rare data on a subject that is of extreme interest to anybody interested in the flourishing or diminishing of democratic values, especially in the global south." Omair Ahmad, The Wire‘Given the scope of the book, Widmalm has done a brilliant job in summarizing the overall results in a concise and uncomplicated way … The book demonstrates the necessity of expanding studies in political tolerance beyond the West.’ – Respons‘This path-breaking book reconceptualises our understanding of political tolerance, as well as its foundations’ - Ananya Sharma, Asian Journal of Social Science