Tolerance in vertical, or patrimonial societies: perspectives from a vertical societySheikha Al-Shamsi – PhD candidate, Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities
This paper provides an analysis of tolerance in vertical, or patrimonial societies from the perspective of someone in a vertical society. It discusses how the structure of a vertical society can either enable or hinder the development of dierent types of values related to
tolerance and uses examples from eorts of the United Arab Emirates to enable tolerance as a social value.
