6. Das autoritäre Syndrom: Dimensionen und Verbreitung der Demokratie-Feindlichkeit

Decker, Oliver; Schuler, Julia; Yendell, Alexander; Schließler, Clara; Brähler, Elmar

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“…Using digital technologies, fruitful adaptations and additions to existing social support systems were made that may have helped attenuate the impact of the crisis. On the other hand, conspiracy mentality has been reported to be on the rise in 2020 compared to 2018 ( Decker et al, 2020 )—a concept that formed one of the dimensions of authoritarianism of the F-Scale and has recently been re-integrated in the definition. Following Volkov (2000) idea of cultural codes , it is possible that authoritarian dynamics change their form of manifestation over time due to social norms and acceptability.…”

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“…With its history of division, Germany constitutes an interesting case to investigate the influence of these factors on authoritarian attitudes over time. In the past decades, the endorsement of authoritarian attitudes has been a lot stronger in those German states that were part of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR; Decker et al, 2020 ). Characteristics of the GDR itself as well as negative transformation experiences and persisting social inequalities between the Eastern and the Western states have all been taken into consideration as possible factors of influence (e.g., Best et al, 2014 ).…”

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Changes in authoritarianism before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Comparisons of latent means across East and West Germany, gender, age, and education

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Modern theories of authoritarianism have stressed the importance of threat to the expression of authoritarian attitudes and intolerance. Arguably, authoritarian tendencies may have increased during COVID-19 pandemic, a major threat to life and security. One issue arising when comparing mean scores is that of measurement invariance. Meaningful comparisons are only possible, if latent constructs are similar between groups and/or across time. This prerequisite is rarely ever tested in research on authoritarianism. In this study, we aim to analyze the short scale for authoritarianism KSA-3 by investigating its measurement invariance on two levels (three first-order and one second-order factors) and latent mean changes using two German representative samples (N = 4,905). Specifically, we look at differences before and during the pandemic (2017 vs. 2020). While measurement invariance holds across both levels in all conditions, we find a decrease in latent means in 2020, contrary to expectations and established theories. Moreover, latent means differ with regard to gender, education, and east–west Germany. We conclude that analyses of latent means and measurement invariance instead of mean comparisons with composites should become the standard. Future studies should focus on threat as a moderator between authoritarianism and intolerance, and on possible interactions with context variables.

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Changes in authoritarianism before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Comparisons of latent means across East and West Germany, gender, age, and education

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“…187f.). Sie werden bei Decker, Brähler, Schließer, et al (2020) in nahezu gleicher Weise wie in den historischen Studien (vgl. Adorno et al, 1982) definiert.…”

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“…Der Satz „Politiker und andere Führungspersönlichkeiten sind nur Marionetten der dahinterstehenden Mächte“ findet bei 33,4 % der Befragten Zustimmung und bei 19,1 % zum Teil (Decker et al. 2020 b, S. 201). Ich zitiere aus der Leipziger Autoritarismus-Studie, die von Oliver Decker und Elmar Brähler, unterstützt von der Heinrich-Böll- und der Otto-Brenner-Stiftung, seit 2002 zur Entwicklung politischer Einstellungen in der Bevölkerung durchgeführt wird.…”

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Die Vertrauenskrise in der Gesellschaft

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2022

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Ausgehend von in empirischen Studien erhobenen Daten über ein weitverbreitetes Misstrauen der Bevölkerung gegenüber der derzeit in Deutschland praktizierten Demokratie und deren politischen Repräsentanten und Repräsentantinnen soll mithilfe eines psychoanalytisch-bindungstheoretischen Ansatzes die als überzogen und unangemessen-irrational erscheinende Einstellung reflektiert werden. In den Erklärungen gesellschaftskritischer, in der Tradition der Kritischen Theorie stehender Autoren werden letztlich die Erfordernisse der ökonomischen Verhältnisse für demokratiefeindliche Einstellungen verantwortlich gemacht. Im Gegensatz dazu soll im vorliegenden Beitrag an das Freud’sche Verständnis grundlegender menschlicher Bedingungen in ihrer Wechselwirkung mit den Anforderungen der Außenwelt angeknüpft werden. Neuere Erkenntnisse wie das aus der Entwicklungspsychologie hervorgegangene Konzept des „epistemischen Vertrauens“ von Peter Fonagy werden einbezogen. Es wird eine Analogie zwischen dem Therapeut*in-Patient*in-Verhältnis und dem Verhältnis zwischen Politiker*innen und ihren potenziellen Wähler*innen hergestellt. An einem „Fallbeispiel“ aus der öffentlichen politischen Kommunikation sollen mithilfe dieser Analogie das erweiterte Verständnis veranschaulicht und ein Vorschlag zur „Behandlungstechnik“ gemacht werden.

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Changes in authoritarianism before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Comparisons of latent means across East and West Germany, gender, age, and education

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