Perspectives on Authoritarianism

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.

Dieser prominent besetzte Sammelband gibt einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der internationalen Autoritarismusforschung. Experten aus aller Welt stellen sich die Frage: Wie hat sich die Forschung seit Adornos berühmten Studien zur autoritarären Persönlichkeit weiter entwickelt? Das Fazit: Es ist ein fruchtbares, theoretisch hochentwickeltes Forschungsfeld entstanden, das sowohl theoretische als auch praktische Antworten auf gesellschaftlich hochrelevante Fragen liefert.

With contribution by Gerda Lederer, Philip T. Dunwoody, Stanley Feldman, Alain van Hiel, H. Michael Crowson, Sam McFarland, Jost Stellmacher, Rainer Riemann, Thomas Kessler, Angela Kindervater, Susanne Rippl, Christian Seipel, Chris Sibley, Bill Peterson, Dirk Baier, Andreas Hadjar, Klaus Boehnke, Andreas Beelmann, Gordon Hodson, Thomas Blank and many more

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).