Stronger issues, weaker predispositions: abortion, gay rights, and authoritarianism

Political psychologists have long theorized that authoritarianism structures the positions people take on cultural issues and their party ties. Authoritarianism is durable; it resists the influence of other political judgments; and it is very impactful-in a word, it is strong. By contrast, researche...

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Main Author: Goren, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2024
Series:Cambridge elements
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Summary:Political psychologists have long theorized that authoritarianism structures the positions people take on cultural issues and their party ties. Authoritarianism is durable; it resists the influence of other political judgments; and it is very impactful-in a word, it is strong. By contrast, researchers characterize the attitudes most people hold on most issues as unstable and ineffectual-in a word, weak. But what is true of most issues is not true of the issues that have driven America's long running culture war-abortion and gay rights. This Element demonstrates that moral issue attitudes are stronger than authoritarianism. With data from multiple sources over the period 1992-2020, it shows that (1) moral issue attitudes endure longer than authoritarianism; (2) moral issues predict change in authoritarianism; (3) authoritarianism does not systematically predict change in moral issues; and (4) moral issues have always played a much greater role structuring party ties than authoritarianism
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2024)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (69 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009529303
DOI:10.1017/9781009529303

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