The Authoritarian Dynamic
Series: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 1, 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780521534789
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Politics / Current Events; General; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Fascism & Totalitarianism; Political Science / General; Cross-cultural studies; Authoritarianism; Conservatism; Toleration
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Preface; title: 1. Introduction: The Authoritarian Dynamic; title: The Concept of Authoritarianism; title: The Philosophy of the Book; title: Data, Methods, Models and Literature: What To Expect; title: Organization of the Book; title: 2. Kindred Spirits, Common Spark: The Theory of the Authoritarian Dynamic; title: Unresolved Issues; title: What It Is; title: Where It Comes From; title: What It Does; title: When It Does It; title: How Best To Measure It; title: Societal Threat and Authoritarianism; title: Relevant Arguments; title: Relevant Evidence; title: Reconciling Existing Arguments and Evidence With the Authoritarian Dynamic; title: Direct Evidence on the Authoritarian Dynamic; title: Threat and Constraint in the Intolerance Domain; title: 3. Manipulating Threat and Reassurance: Data and Methods; title: The Durham Community Survey 1997; title: The Multi-Investigator Study 1999; title: The Cultural Revolution Experiment 1995; title: 4. The Authoritarian Dynamic and the Politics of Fear: Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle; title: Together; title: The Authoritarian Dynamic: An Initial Demonstration; title: Experimental Manipulation of the Authoritarian Dynamic; title: Replication on Survey Data: A Real World Phenomenon; title: Solving the Puzzle; title: Viewed From the Other Angle: It Depends on the Individual; title: One Dimension, Two Characters, Same Battle; title: What Makes the World Feel Dangerous?; title: Replication on Survey Data: Naturally Occurring Perceptions; title: The Special Status of Normative Threat; title: Addressing Likely Misconceptions of the Theory; title: Contemporaneous Perceptions v. Persistent Beliefs; title: Normative Threat, Collective Threat and Personal Threat; title: Not Merely Partisanship, Not Just Persistent Fearfulness; title: Authoritarian Predisposition v. Authoritarian Attitudes; title: A Very Specific Process; title: Stability and Constraint; title: Relative Stability of Major Predispositions; title: Latent Predispositions and Their Manifest Expressions; title: A Fundamental Predisposition Exercising Unusual Constraint; title: What Have We Learned?; title: 5. Authoritarianism and Conservatism Across Cultures; title: Authoritarianism, Status Quo Conservatism, and Laissez Faire Conservatism; title: Political Psychology v. Political Ideology; title: 'Right-Wing Extremism': Extremely What? Extreme How?; title: Measures With Confused and Shifting Content; title: The Plan of Attack; title: Authoritarianism ? Conservatism; title: A Comparative Investigation: In Search of Generalities; title: 'Bare Bones' Measures of Authoritarianism and Status Quo Conservatism; title: Universal Measures of Intolerance; title: Authoritarianism v. Status Quo Conservatism in Western Europe; title: Britain; title: Denmark; title: Italy; title: France; title: West Germany; title: Authoritarianism v. Status Quo Conservatism in Eastern Europe; title: Romania; title: East Germany; title: Czechslovakia; title: Yugoslavia; title: A Common Source and a Universal Process; title: Measurement Error and the Apparently Varying Influence of Authoritarianism; title: Unreliability of Authoritarianism Measure; title: Varying Impact of Authoritarianism More Apparent Than Real; title: Varying Impact of Authoritarianism Partly Real; title: Unreliability of Racial Intolerance Measure; title: Varying Power of Authoritarianism Partly an Artifact; title: Varying Power of Authoritarianism Partly Real; title: A Parsimonious Account of General Intolerance of Difference; title: A Dataset Representative of the World Population; title: The List of Competitors: Rival Explanatory Variables; title: Authoritarianism the Primary Determinant of Worldwide Intolerance; title: Disentangling the 'Essence' of Education; title: Status Quo and Laissez Faire Conservatism Not Generally Influential; title: Explaining the Explanatory Gap; title: The Future of Intolerance; title: 6. Authoritarianism and Conservatism: How They Differ and When It Matters; title: Prior Research on Origins of Authoritarianism and Status Quo Conservatism; title: Group Identification v. General 'Group-iness'; title: Subcultural Expressions of Authoritarianism; title: Same Form and Function: A System of Collective Constraint; title: Fear, Insecurity, Isolation, Meaninglessness; title: Personality Factors: 'Openness to Experience' and 'Conscientiousness'; title: Innate and Stable Disposition? The Heritability of Personality; title: Cognitive Factors: Deficiencies in Capacity, Knowledge, Reasoning; title: The Ambiguous Effects of Education; title: Childhood Socialization: Rigid Upbringing and Parental Punitiveness; title: Altemeyer and 'Social Learning'; title: A Subtle But Critical Distinction; title: Prior Research on Origins of Laissez Faire Conservatism; title: The Primacy and Independence of Freedom and Equality; title: Terminal v. Instrumental Values; title: Distinctive Determinants of Laissez Faire Conservatism v. Authoritarianism; title: Simple Models of Authoritarianism and Conservatism; title: Major Sources of Authoritarianism; title: Major Sources of Laissez Faire Conservatism; title: Major Sources of Status Quo Conservatism; title: Fully Specified Model of Authoritarianism and Status Quo Conservatism; title: Modest Reciprocity and Differing Determinants; title: Clarifying the Effects of Education; title: Validity of Authoritarianism Measure: Childrearing Values ? Childrearing Practices; title: Nature or Nurture? Identical Germanies Reared Apart; title: Authoritarianism and 'Political Conservatism' As Distinct Predispositions; title: Measures of Authoritarianism and Political Conservatism; title: But What Is Political Conservatism?; title: Fully Specified Model of Authoritarianism and Political Conservatism; title: Clarifying the Roles of Personality, Cognition and Childhood Socialization; title: Childrearing Values ? Childrearing Practices, Revisited; title: General Overview of Findings; title: What's in the Mix? The Content of Political Conservatism; title: The Contingent Relationship of Authoritarianism and Political Conservatism; title: Authoritarianism v. Conservatism: Difference Across Space v. Difference Over Time; title: Engineering a Realignment: 'Changing Together' v. 'Stable Diversity'; title: Authoritarianism v. Conservatism: Intervention By Whom and To What Ends?; title: Setting Authoritarians and Conservatives At Odds; title: 'Left-Wing' Authoritarians and 'Right-Wing' Libertarians; title: Authoritarianism and Political Conservatism As Sources of Intolerance; title: Mobilizing and Employing v. Generating Intolerance; title: Data and Measures; title: Authoritarianism the Primary Determinant of U.S. Intolerance, and Growing; title: Changing Racial Norms Alter the Intolerant 'Yield' of Conservatism; title: The Final Account; title: 7. One True People: Putting a Face on the Theory; title: The Roles of the Primary Interviewer and Interview Partner; title: The Primary Interviewer; title: The Interview Partner; title: Race of Interviewers; title: Attempts to Obtain the Interview; title: Self-Interest, Suspicion and Hostility Toward Strangers; title: Impressions From the Interview; title: It's About Responsibility; title: Closed-Minded and Unintelligent, Unnerved and Unappealing; title: Overall Characteristics of the Discussion; title: Cognitive Complexity of the Discussion; title: Distinctive Themes of the Discussion; title: Implicit Aggression in the Discussion; title: Spontaneous Revelation of Distinctions Between the Characters; title: Interview Conduct and Interactions; title: You'd Have To Pay Me To Do That; title: Anxiety and Avoidance; title: You Don't Want To Know What I Really Think; title: A Level of Comfort; title: Personality and Demeanor; title: Happy, Active and Gregarious; title: An Intimidating Character; title: Warm and Friendly, Open and Excitable; title: Bitter and Unfriendly; title: Cognitive Capacity; title: Complex, Thoughtful and Eloquent; title: Simplistic, Unsophisticated and Inarticulate; title: Uneasy Conclusions; title: 8. One Right Way: Fleshing Out the Portrait; title: Racial Animosity, Prejudice and Discrimination; title: Liberal Democratic Norms and Political Correctness; title: Authoritarians Know the Norms; title: The Best That They Could Manage; title: Talking Amongst Ourselves; title: Interracial Contact; title: Who Is To Blame?; title: Ethnocentrism, Patriotism and Politics; title: Patriotism or Ethnocentrism?; title: Political Disengagement and Anti-Democratic Sentiment; title: 'Super-Patriotism'; title: Morality and Discipline, Crime and Punishment; title: What Moral Decay? Airing the Dirty Laundry in Public; title: Crime Has a Black Face: Race and Crime in the Sub-Conscious; title: The Impending Crisis of Morality; title: Moral Discipline: Governmental Regulation and Public Education; title: The Failure of Families; title: Conclusion: Two Distinguished Characters; title: 9. Manning the Barricades: Racism and Intolerance Under Conditions of Normative; title: Threat; title: The Costs of a Narrow Perspective; title: Missing Important Commonalities; title: Misattributing Effects; title: Neither Target Nor Domain Specific; title: The Expression v. Generation of Intolerance; title: Difference-ism: The Generality and Primacy of Aversion to Difference; title: Changing Conceptions of 'Us' and 'Them'; title: A New and Even More Different 'Them': The Malleable Boundaries of 'Us'; title: Defending Some Oneness, Not Some One; title: Experimental Manipulation of the Authoritarian Dynamic; title: Activation of the Predisposition Under Normative Threat; title: Varying Reliability: Calling Up, and Calming Down a Latent Predisposition; title: Clueless or Fearless? What to Make of Unreliability; title: Enhanced Effects of Authoritarianism Under Normative Threat; title: Racial Intolerance; title: Political Intolerance; title: Moral Intolerance; title: Punitiveness; title: Overview of Findings; title: Replication on Survey Data: Varying Public Discord Across Cultures and Time; title: Normative Threat and Attitudinal Constraint; title: The Politics of Ideas v. The Politics of Fear; title: 10. The Authoritarian Dynamic: Implications; title: The Political Psychology of Intolerance; title: Authoritarianism v. Status Quo Conservatism: Conservatives As Defenders of Freedom; title: Authoritarianism v. Laissez Faire Conservatism: Authoritarians As Social Reformers; title: Accepting and Working With Difference-ism; title: The Science v. Religion of Democracy; title: Community Requires Community; title: The Paradox of American Democracy; title: 'Stealth Democracy': Less Is More; title: Democracy Is Bad for the Anti-Democrat; title: Democracy Is Its Own Undoing