The Authoritarian Dynamic

"The Authoritarian Dynamic" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Contents
• 2- Preface
• 3- 1. Introduction: The Authoritarian Dynamic
• 4- The Concept of Authoritarianism
• 5- The Philosophy of the Book
• 6- Data, Methods, Models and Literature: What To Expect
• 7- Organization of the Book
• 8- 2. Kindred Spirits, Common Spark: The Theory of the Authoritarian Dynamic
• 9- Unresolved Issues
• 10- What It Is
• 11- Where It Comes From
• 12- What It Does
• 13- When It Does It
• 14- How Best To Measure It
• 15- Societal Threat and Authoritarianism
• 16- Relevant Arguments
• 17- Relevant Evidence
• 18- Reconciling Existing Arguments and Evidence With the Authoritarian Dynamic
• 19- Direct Evidence on the Authoritarian Dynamic
• 20- Threat and Constraint in the Intolerance Domain
• 21- 3. Manipulating Threat and Reassurance: Data and Methods
• 22- The Durham Community Survey 1997
• 23- The Multi-Investigator Study 1999
• 24- The Cultural Revolution Experiment 1995
• 25- 4. The Authoritarian Dynamic and the Politics of Fear: Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle
• 26- Together
• 27- The Authoritarian Dynamic: An Initial Demonstration
• 28- Experimental Manipulation of the Authoritarian Dynamic
• 29- Replication on Survey Data: A Real World Phenomenon
• 30- Solving the Puzzle
• 31- Viewed From the Other Angle: It Depends on the Individual
• 32- One Dimension, Two Characters, Same Battle
• 33- What Makes the World Feel Dangerous?
• 34- Replication on Survey Data: Naturally Occurring Perceptions
• 35- The Special Status of Normative Threat
• 36- Addressing Likely Misconceptions of the Theory
• 37- Contemporaneous Perceptions v. Persistent Beliefs
• 38- Normative Threat, Collective Threat and Personal Threat
• 39- Not Merely Partisanship, Not Just Persistent Fearfulness
• 40- Authoritarian Predisposition v. Authoritarian Attitudes
• 41- A Very Specific Process
• 42- Stability and Constraint
• 43- Relative Stability of Major Predispositions
• 44- Latent Predispositions and Their Manifest Expressions
• 45- A Fundamental Predisposition Exercising Unusual Constraint
• 46- What Have We Learned?
• 47- 5. Authoritarianism and Conservatism Across Cultures
• 48- Authoritarianism, Status Quo Conservatism, and Laissez Faire Conservatism
• 49- Political Psychology v. Political Ideology
• 50- 'Right-Wing Extremism': Extremely What? Extreme How?
• 51- Measures With Confused and Shifting Content
• 52- The Plan of Attack
• 53- Authoritarianism ? Conservatism
• 54- A Comparative Investigation: In Search of Generalities
• 55- 'Bare Bones' Measures of Authoritarianism and Status Quo Conservatism
• 56- Universal Measures of Intolerance
• 57- Authoritarianism v. Status Quo Conservatism in Western Europe
• 58- Britain
• 59- Denmark
• 60- Italy
• 61- France
• 62- West Germany
• 63- Authoritarianism v. Status Quo Conservatism in Eastern Europe
• 64- Romania
• 65- East Germany
• 66- Czechslovakia
• 67- Yugoslavia
• 68- A Common Source and a Universal Process
• 69- Measurement Error and the Apparently Varying Influence of Authoritarianism
• 70- Unreliability of Authoritarianism Measure
• 71- Varying Impact of Authoritarianism More Apparent Than Real
• 72- Varying Impact of Authoritarianism Partly Real
• 73- Unreliability of Racial Intolerance Measure
• 74- Varying Power of Authoritarianism Partly an Artifact
• 75- Varying Power of Authoritarianism Partly Real
• 76- A Parsimonious Account of General Intolerance of Difference
• 77- A Dataset Representative of the World Population
• 78- The List of Competitors: Rival Explanatory Variables
• 79- Authoritarianism the Primary Determinant of Worldwide Intolerance
• 80- Disentangling the 'Essence' of Education
• 81- Status Quo and Laissez Faire Conservatism Not Generally Influential
• 82- Explaining the Explanatory Gap
• 83- The Future of Intolerance
• 84- 6. Authoritarianism and Conservatism: How They Differ and When It Matters
• 85- Prior Research on Origins of Authoritarianism and Status Quo Conservatism
• 86- Group Identification v. General 'Group-iness'
• 87- Subcultural Expressions of Authoritarianism
• 88- Same Form and Function: A System of Collective Constraint
• 89- Fear, Insecurity, Isolation, Meaninglessness
• 90- Personality Factors: 'Openness to Experience' and 'Conscientiousness'
• 91- Innate and Stable Disposition? The Heritability of Personality
• 92- Cognitive Factors: Deficiencies in Capacity, Knowledge, Reasoning
• 93- The Ambiguous Effects of Education
• 94- Childhood Socialization: Rigid Upbringing and Parental Punitiveness
• 95- Altemeyer and 'Social Learning'
• 96- A Subtle But Critical Distinction
• 97- Prior Research on Origins of Laissez Faire Conservatism
• 98- The Primacy and Independence of Freedom and Equality
• 99- Terminal v. Instrumental Values
• 100- Distinctive Determinants of Laissez Faire Conservatism v. Authoritarianism
• 101- Simple Models of Authoritarianism and Conservatism
• 102- Major Sources of Authoritarianism
• 103- Major Sources of Laissez Faire Conservatism
• 104- Major Sources of Status Quo Conservatism
• 105- Fully Specified Model of Authoritarianism and Status Quo Conservatism
• 106- Modest Reciprocity and Differing Determinants
• 107- Clarifying the Effects of Education
• 108- Validity of Authoritarianism Measure: Childrearing Values ? Childrearing Practices
• 109- Nature or Nurture? Identical Germanies Reared Apart
• 110- Authoritarianism and 'Political Conservatism' As Distinct Predispositions
• 111- Measures of Authoritarianism and Political Conservatism
• 112- But What Is Political Conservatism?
• 113- Fully Specified Model of Authoritarianism and Political Conservatism
• 114- Clarifying the Roles of Personality, Cognition and Childhood Socialization
• 115- Childrearing Values ? Childrearing Practices, Revisited
• 116- General Overview of Findings
• 117- What's in the Mix? The Content of Political Conservatism
• 118- The Contingent Relationship of Authoritarianism and Political Conservatism
• 119- Authoritarianism v. Conservatism: Difference Across Space v. Difference Over Time
• 120- Engineering a Realignment: 'Changing Together' v. 'Stable Diversity'
• 121- Authoritarianism v. Conservatism: Intervention By Whom and To What Ends?
• 122- Setting Authoritarians and Conservatives At Odds
• 123- 'Left-Wing' Authoritarians and 'Right-Wing' Libertarians
• 124- Authoritarianism and Political Conservatism As Sources of Intolerance
• 125- Mobilizing and Employing v. Generating Intolerance
• 126- Data and Measures
• 127- Authoritarianism the Primary Determinant of U.S. Intolerance, and Growing
• 128- Changing Racial Norms Alter the Intolerant 'Yield' of Conservatism
• 129- The Final Account
• 130- 7. One True People: Putting a Face on the Theory
• 131- The Roles of the Primary Interviewer and Interview Partner
• 132- The Primary Interviewer
• 133- The Interview Partner
• 134- Race of Interviewers
• 135- Attempts to Obtain the Interview
• 136- Self-Interest, Suspicion and Hostility Toward Strangers
• 137- Impressions From the Interview
• 138- It's About Responsibility
• 139- Closed-Minded and Unintelligent, Unnerved and Unappealing
• 140- Overall Characteristics of the Discussion
• 141- Cognitive Complexity of the Discussion
• 142- Distinctive Themes of the Discussion
• 143- Implicit Aggression in the Discussion
• 144- Spontaneous Revelation of Distinctions Between the Characters
• 145- Interview Conduct and Interactions
• 146- You'd Have To Pay Me To Do That
• 147- Anxiety and Avoidance
• 148- You Don't Want To Know What I Really Think
• 149- A Level of Comfort
• 150- Personality and Demeanor
• 151- Happy, Active and Gregarious
• 152- An Intimidating Character
• 153- Warm and Friendly, Open and Excitable
• 154- Bitter and Unfriendly
• 155- Cognitive Capacity
• 156- Complex, Thoughtful and Eloquent
• 157- Simplistic, Unsophisticated and Inarticulate
• 158- Uneasy Conclusions
• 159- 8. One Right Way: Fleshing Out the Portrait
• 160- Racial Animosity, Prejudice and Discrimination
• 161- Liberal Democratic Norms and Political Correctness
• 162- Authoritarians Know the Norms
• 163- The Best That They Could Manage
• 164- Talking Amongst Ourselves
• 165- Interracial Contact
• 166- Who Is To Blame?
• 167- Ethnocentrism, Patriotism and Politics
• 168- Patriotism or Ethnocentrism?
• 169- Political Disengagement and Anti-Democratic Sentiment
• 170- 'Super-Patriotism'
• 171- Morality and Discipline, Crime and Punishment
• 172- What Moral Decay? Airing the Dirty Laundry in Public
• 173- Crime Has a Black Face: Race and Crime in the Sub-Conscious
• 174- The Impending Crisis of Morality
• 175- Moral Discipline: Governmental Regulation and Public Education
• 176- The Failure of Families
• 177- Conclusion: Two Distinguished Characters
• 178- 9. Manning the Barricades: Racism and Intolerance Under Conditions of Normative
• 179- Threat
• 180- The Costs of a Narrow Perspective
• 181- Missing Important Commonalities
• 182- Misattributing Effects
• 183- Neither Target Nor Domain Specific
• 184- The Expression v. Generation of Intolerance
• 185- Difference-ism: The Generality and Primacy of Aversion to Difference
• 186- Changing Conceptions of 'Us' and 'Them'
• 187- A New and Even More Different 'Them': The Malleable Boundaries of 'Us'
• 188- Defending Some Oneness, Not Some One
• 189- Experimental Manipulation of the Authoritarian Dynamic
• 190- Activation of the Predisposition Under Normative Threat
• 191- Varying Reliability: Calling Up, and Calming Down a Latent Predisposition
• 192- Clueless or Fearless? What to Make of Unreliability
• 193- Enhanced Effects of Authoritarianism Under Normative Threat
• 194- Racial Intolerance
• 195- Political Intolerance
• 196- Moral Intolerance
• 197- Punitiveness
• 198- Overview of Findings
• 199- Replication on Survey Data: Varying Public Discord Across Cultures and Time
• 200- Normative Threat and Attitudinal Constraint
• 201- The Politics of Ideas v. The Politics of Fear
• 202- 10. The Authoritarian Dynamic: Implications
• 203- The Political Psychology of Intolerance
• 204- Authoritarianism v. Status Quo Conservatism: Conservatives As Defenders of Freedom
• 205- Authoritarianism v. Laissez Faire Conservatism: Authoritarians As Social Reformers
• 206- Accepting and Working With Difference-ism
• 207- The Science v. Religion of Democracy
• 208- Community Requires Community
• 209- The Paradox of American Democracy
• 210- 'Stealth Democracy': Less Is More
• 211- Democracy Is Bad for the Anti-Democrat
• 212- Democracy Is Its Own Undoing

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