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Authoritarians increasingly seek to create an appearance of good performance, conceal state repression, and imitate democracy. [ 51 ] While authoritarian regimes invest considerably in propaganda out of a belief that it enhances regime survival, scholars have offered mixed views as to whether propaganda is effective.
Robert Anthony Altemeyer (6 June 1940 – 7 February 2024) was a Canadian psychologist who was Professor of Psychology at the University of Manitoba. [1] [2] Altemeyer also produced the right-wing authoritarianism scale, or RWA Scale, [3] as well as the related left-wing authoritarianism scale, or LWA Scale.
I fear the authoritarians in the White House have been emboldened by how much they have been able to accomplish with relatively little pushback.
United States President Jimmy Carter meeting with Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi at the White House in November 1977. Throughout its history and up to the present day, the United States has had close ties with authoritarian governments.
Applebaum offers a way to think about why those authoritarians might work together beyond hatred qua hatred for the U.S. or the West, an arrangement she aptly calls “Autocracy, Inc.” The ...
At first glance, elections in France and Britain were a triumph for leftists and reformers over authoritarians and the right. In France, a leftist coalition beat the far right into third place in ...
Right-wing authoritarians tend to accept what their leaders say is true and readily comply with their commands. They believe that respecting authority is an important moral virtue that everyone in the community must hold.
Most authoritarians do not teleport fully formed into national leadership. They first must learn how to rule anti-democratically, usually at the local level. Participating in local government is a ...