Setting aside the issue of whet her the questions measure learned cultural dispositions or innate temperament, they do enable researchers to assess the
authoritarian values held by respondents.
However, some of the most notorious proposals have clustered around a common theme: advocacy of
authoritarian central government as the most promising approach for addressing the ecological crisis.
And even if one were to accept the validity of the
authoritarian syndrome, the original researchers were never able to make a convincing case that it was caused by
authoritarian childrearing practices.
It may be premature, however, to conclude that
authoritarians fear interactions with other people, or have a general predisposition toward fear.
Where the
authoritarian demands blind obedience to a doctrine, god, or authority figure, the liberal endorses an approach taken directly from Kant's notion of enlightenment with its emphasis on critical thinking and reflection.
The benevolent
authoritarian cares for people but is caught between caring and being threatened by opposition, especially as differences develop.
One of the most influential but controversial of these classics was The
Authoritarian Personality.
We use a fully interactive analysis of covariance model to test whether democratic and
authoritarian regimes respond differently to each constraint.
Two necessary qualifications: 'a right-wing
authoritarian follower doesn't necessarily have conservative political views.
The analytical trap is to assume that
authoritarian governments, which suppress political pluralism and free expression in order to maintain power at home, would be inclined to act differently internationally.
Being 'religious' does not automatically build a firewall against accepting totalitarianism, and when fundamentalist religions teach
authoritarian submission,
authoritarian aggression, and conventionalism, they help create the problem.
Despite the fact that this growing coordination negatively impacts the interests of democratic nations, states in the West, including the United States, have responded weakly to the policies of the
authoritarian states.
