2. Die Leipziger Autoritarismus Studie 2022: Methode, Ergebnisse und Langzeitverlauf

Decker, Oliver; Kiess, Johannes; Heller, Ayline; Schuler, Julia; Brähler, Elmar

doi:10.30820/9783837979190-31

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“…It does, however, not imply that radical political attitudes are equally rare. For instance, the Leipzig Authoritarianism Study reports that about 17.0 percent of Germans hold manifested xenophobic attitudes in 2022 [ 66 ]. In our data, combining the xenophobia related items RWR2 and RWR5 from Table 1 results in a slightly lower number of 13.4 percent of Germans who can be characterized as xenophobic.…”

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Measuring political radicalism and extremism in surveys: Three new scales

Jungkunz,

Helbling,

Osenbrügge

2024

PLoS ONE

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This paper introduces three new scales to measure left- and right-wing radical as well as general extremist attitudes that can be applied across Western European countries. We therefore propose a thorough conceptualization of extremist attitudes that consists of two dimensions: general extremism, by which we understand attitudes that oppose the constitutional democratic state, and another dimension that differentiates between right- and left-wing radicalism by which we understand people who take far-reaching but often one-sided positions on political issues (e.g., on nationalism or anti-imperialism) by advocating fundamental socio-political change. Based on data from Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands (n = 6,201) we created short indices for general extremism and left- and right-wing radicalism. We check for convergence validity by assessing the psychometric properties of the extracted indices, i.e. their internal coherence and the degree to which a scale is able to distinguish strongly extremist and non-extremist individuals. Finally, we correlate the scales with various constructs that are likely related to extremist attitudes in order to assure external or construct validity. The results indicate that the three scales are highly valid and applicable across three Western European countries. Overall, we find that about two to four percent of citizens in each country hold left-wing or right-wing extremist attitudes.

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Section: Aggregating Left- and Right-wing Extremism Scalesmentioning

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Measuring political radicalism and extremism in surveys: Three new scales

Jungkunz,

Helbling,

Osenbrügge

2024

PLoS ONE

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“…Third, current research has called for more comparative studies to explain varying levels of right‐wing populism in different countries (e.g., Van Hauwaert & Van Kessel, 2018). We compare implicit and explicit RWP in Switzerland, where right‐wing populism is widely accepted within society, with Germany, where resentments against such ideology exist due to its Nazi past (e.g., Decker et al, 2022). Such national public opinion is reflected, for example, by party support in elections: In Switzerland, the strong RWP party, “Schweizerische Volkspartei” (SVP), has won all national elections during the past 20 years with a vote share continuously higher than 25% (BFS, 2023) and as a result has been part of the consensus government for decades.…”

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The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland

Maier¹,

Gil‐López

Bromme³

et al. 2023

Political Psychology

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We conceptualize and measure right‐wing populism (RWP) as a three‐dimensional concept, explicitly and implicitly, based on online surveys and implicit association tests (IATs) in Germany and Switzerland. Confirmatory factor analyses show that explicit populism, nativism, and authoritarianism establish the latent RWP‐construct and that they are each related to their respective implicit counterpart. However, RWP ideology does not exist as an equally robust construct in the implicit realm as it does in the explicit realm. Resulting implicit‐explicit incongruence is psychologically meaningful in that it is moderated by willingness to comply with perceived social norms: For participants who perceive that their own political views differ from their social environment and who conceal their diverging opinions, implicit attitudes differ more strongly from explicit attitudes. This supports our rationale that explicit expression of RWP‐ideology is subject to social‐compatibility concerns. Hence, corresponding implicit attitudes are useful to fully assess the RWP potential within society.

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“…18 So auf die in der Bevölkerung verbreiteten rechtsextremen Einstellungen (Decker et al 2022), die aktuellen autoritär-populistischen Bewegungen (Henkelmann et al 2020), die SA als der faschistische Kampfbund aus der Bewegungszeit (Reichardt 2009) oder die »Judenvernichtung« (Elbe 2015a). 19 Eine hiervon verschiedene Erklärung des faschistischen Individuums unternimmt Fromm dagegen in der späteren Psychologie des Nazismus (siehe Abschnitt 6).…”

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“…7Die Leipziger Mitte-Studie kommt bei Covid-19 bezogenen Verschwörungserzählungen 2022 auf knapp 37 % vgl Decker et al (2022)…”

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Kritische Theorie der extremen Rechten

2023

Sozialtheorie

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Die kritische Theorie erklärte Faschismus und autoritäres Bewusstsein aus den Widersprüchen und Krisentendenzen der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. Die Analyse der extremen und populistischen Rechten kann an die Einsichten von Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno und Co. anknüpfen. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes rekapitulieren zentrale theoretische Überlegungen zum autoritären Charakter und zum autoritären Staat, zu Antisemitismus und Rassismus sowie zum Verhältnis von liberalem und völkischem Denken. Darüber hinaus setzen sie sich in der Tradition der kritischen Theorie mit verschiedenen Aspekten der gegenwärtigen extremen Rechten auseinander.

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2. Die Leipziger Autoritarismus Studie 2022: Methode, Ergebnisse und Langzeitverlauf

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Measuring political radicalism and extremism in surveys: Three new scales

Measuring political radicalism and extremism in surveys: Three new scales

The Interplay Between Explicit and Implicit Right‐Wing Populism in Germany and Switzerland

Kritische Theorie der extremen Rechten

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