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  • Mar 2027

Perspectives on Authoritarianism

Editors:

  1. Friedrich Funke

    1. Univ. Jena Inst. f. Psychologie, Jena, Germany

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  2. Thomas Petzel

    1. Univ. Lüneburg Inst. f. Psychologie, Lüneburg, Germany

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  3. Christopher Cohrs

    1. Belfast, United Kingdom

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  4. John Duckitt

    1. University of Auckland Department of Psychology, Auckland, New Zealand

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  • The book documents current developments in research on authoritarianism by well-known experts from all over the world

  • Modern perspectives, theoretical approaches and empirical results are assembled in this book

  • Systematically reflection about the state of the art in international authoritarianism research.

Part of the book series: Politische Psychologie (POLPSY)

About this book

The book documents current developments in research on authoritarianism by well-known experts from all over the world. Adorno et al.'s study of the authoritarian character and Altemeyer's reconceptualization in the 1980s are legendary – but where has research developed since? Modern perspectives, theoretical approaches and empirical results are assembled in this book which systematically reflects the state of the art in international authoritarianism research.
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Keywords

  • Adorno
  • Autoritarismus
  • Charakter
  • Einstellung
  • Einstellungsforschung
  • Psychologie
  • autoritäre Persönlichkeit
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Univ. Jena Inst. f. Psychologie, Jena, Germany

    Friedrich Funke

  • Univ. Lüneburg Inst. f. Psychologie, Lüneburg, Germany

    Thomas Petzel

  • Belfast, United Kingdom

    Christopher Cohrs

  • University of Auckland Department of Psychology, Auckland, New Zealand

    John Duckitt

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About the editors

Dr Friedrich Funke is a political and social psychologist. He directs the Centre for Advanced Research Methodology at the Graduate Academy/Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany).
Dr Thomas Petzel is Lecturer in Social Psychology at Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany).
Dr Christopher Cohrs is Lecturer in Social Psychology at the School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast (Northern Ireland), where he also works in the Centre for Research in Political Psychology (CResPP).
John Duckitt, PhD, is Professor for Social Psychology at the University of Auckland (New Zealand).
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