{"title": "Right-Wing Authoritarianism", "key": "/works/OL21961399W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL382750A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Altemeyer begins by closely examining the scientific literature on right-wing authoritarianism. This timely volume surveys the history of social psychological research on right-wing authoritarianism and describes a more fruitful direction for future work. It concludes with a disturbing comment on the pervasiveness of authoritarian behavior in our society.\r\n\r\n\r\n**Contents**\r\nIntroduction\r\n1. A critique of previous social psychological research on right-wing authoritarianism\r\n2. The response set issue\r\n3. A suggested conceptualization of right-wing authoritarianism\r\n4. A test of the construct validity of the RWA and five other authoritarian scales\r\n5. Explorations of the dynamics and covariates of right-wing authoritarianism\r\n6. Some exploratory findings on the origins of right-wing authoritarianism\r\nEpilogue\r\nAppendixes\r\nNotes"}, "subjects": ["Psychology", "Politics", "Research", "Political Science", "Authoritarianism", "Authoritarianism (Personality trait)", "Authoritarianism--history", "Political History", "Social History", "Conservatism", "Right and left (Political science)"], "links": [{"title": "Official Site", "url": "https://theauthoritarians.org/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Publisher", "url": "https://uofmpress.ca/books/right-wing-authoritarianism", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "covers": [14818912], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-09-02T01:04:40.930864"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-12-15T12:46:06.366610"}}