Who Is Open to Authoritarian Governance within Western Democracies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6324813 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ariel Malka (0000-0002-7300-514X, University of Amsterdam), Yphtach Lelkes (0000-0003-1805-056X, University of Amsterdam), Bert N Bakker (0000-0002-6491-5045, University of Amsterdam), Eliyahu Spivack (University of Amsterdam) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 808-827 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1537592720002091 |
| OpenAlex | W3083986913 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 88 |
Recent events have raised concern about potential threats to democracy within Western countries. If Western citizens who are open to authoritarian governance share a common set of political preferences, then authoritarian elites can attract mass coalitions that are willing to subvert democracy to achieve shared ideological goals. With this in mind, we explored which ideological groups are most open to authoritarian governance within Western general publics using World Values Survey data from fourteen Western democracies and three recent Latin American Public Opinion Project samples from Canada and the United States. Two key findings emerged. First, cultural conservatism was consistently associated with openness to authoritarian governance. Second, within half of the democracies studied, including all of the English-speaking ones, Western citizens holding a protection-based attitude package—combining cultural conservatism with left economic attitudes—were the most open to authoritarian governance. Within other countries, protection-based and consistently right-wing attitude packages were associated with similarly high levels of openness to authoritarian governance. We discuss implications for radical right populism and the possibility of splitting potentially undemocratic mass coalitions along economic lines
Authoritarianism · Conservatism · Corporate governance · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Ideology · Openness to experience · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Public opinion · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |