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Finland (n=1224) 1,1 11,9 28,1 51,3
Where values do not add up to 100 percent, it is due to missing values,
Question wording: “We would like to know how you feel about these things, Please place each of the little
cards you have there on one of the parts of this card to show me, (…) Whether you have actually done any
of these things on the cards during the past ten years, If not, the extent to which you feel you might do each
of these things [“would do” or “might do”] or whether you would never, under any circumstances, do each
of these things, (…) Boycotts,”
Lawful Demonstrations Have done Would do Might do Would never do
Great Britain (n=1483) 5,6 24,7 24,2 41,7
West Germany (n=2307) 8,5 32,6 23,6 32,9
Netherlands (n=1201) 7,0 39,2 22,1 29,1
Austria (n=1585) 6,2 21,3 17,3 42,7
USA (n=1719) 11,4 27,5 28,7 27,7
Italy (n=1779) 16,7 34,4 18,7 18,9
Switzerland (n=1290) 8,0 28,8 28,3 30,4
Finland (n=1224) 5,7 22,1 29,0 39,8
Where values do not add up to 100 percent, it is due to missing values,
Question wording: “We would like to know how you feel about these things, Please place each of the little
cards you have there on one of the parts of this card to show me, (…) Whether you have actually done any
of these things on the cards during the past ten years, If not, the extent to which you feel you might do each
of these things [“would do” or “might do”] or whether you would never, under any circumstances, do each
of these things, (…) Lawful demonstrations,”
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