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Lederer, Gerda; Kindervater, Angela

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“…For the 2006 wave of data gathering, scales were further reduced to items that had worked well in the 2003 wave. Authoritarianism was measured by three items selected from the authoritarianism scale of Lederer (Lederer & Kindervater, 1995; see Table 1). Measurement of perceived threat followed the argumentation brought forward by Stephan and Stephan (2000) and Ben-Nun-Bloom et al (2008) in distinguishing material and cultural threat.…”

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Threat Appraisal and Authoritarianism in Context: Reactions to the European Union Enlargement in Border Regions

Rippl

Seipel

2012

J Applied Social Pyschol

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The present study uses European Union (EU) enlargement as the treatment in a “natural” quasi experiment to analyze the relationship of threat appraisal and authoritarianism. Theoretically it is based on the discussion about the role of contextual variables in the genesis of authoritarianism. Two contradictory perspectives are explicated: the trait model and the situationist model. To test the competing causal hypotheses panel data collected before and after the EU eastern enlargement on perceived threat, authoritarian attitudes, and xenophobia among inhabitants of the German external frontier of the EU (at Wave 1) were analyzed. The use of a cross‐lagged panel design demonstrated that the type of relationship between authoritarianism and perceived threat depended on the kind of threat (material or cultural) that was addressed.

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Threat Appraisal and Authoritarianism in Context: Reactions to the European Union Enlargement in Border Regions

Rippl

Seipel

2012

J Applied Social Pyschol

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“…2 For example, Larsen, Groberg, and Simmons (1993) found that in some former socialist societies, like Bulgaria and Hungary, respondents scored even higher on authoritarianism than did samples from the United States (Oregon) and Norway. Lederer and Kindervater (1995) compared authoritarianism among school children from East Germany (1990), West Germany (1992), and the Soviet Union (1991). They found that children from the Soviet Union scored the highest, followed by children from East Germany, with West German children's scores being the lowest.…”

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Psychological motives and political orientation--The left, the right, and the rigid: Comment on Jost et al. (2003).

Greenberg

Jonas

2003

Psychological Bulletin

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Presenting an impressive model based on a large body of evidence, J. T. Jost, J. Glaser, A.W. Kruglanski, and F. J. Sulloway (2003) proposed that political conservatism uniquely serves epistemic, existential, and ideological needs driven by fears and uncertainties. The authors offer an alternative view based on conceptual considerations, historical events, features of communist ideology and practice, and additional social science research not reviewed by Jost et al. (2003). First, the authors take issue with Jost et al. 's (2003) description of the two core components of political conservatism. Second, they propose that the motives in the model are equally well served by rigid adherence to any extreme ideology regardless of whether it is right wing or left wing.

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“…authoritarianism is found universally in different societies. 35 Nonetheless, research comparing east and West germany shows that the post-Communist society tends to be more authoritarian than the one having longer liberal democratic traditions. 36 The guiding questions of the present research were as follows: (1) Which measures-punishing or supporting and educating-for juvenile offenders do Lithuanian residents support?…”

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“Is Juvenile Delinquency in Lithuania Increasing because of the Bad Influence of the West”? Punitive Attitudes of the Lithuanian Population towards Juvenile Offenders

Buzaitytė-Kašalynienė,

Švedaitė-Sakalauskė,

Kalpokas

et al. 2023

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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This article aims to assess the Lithuanian population’s punitive attitudes towards juvenile delinquents, to discuss them from the perspective of authoritarianism and to connect them to Lithuania’s communist past. This study was a cross-sectional population-based study, administered in 2021. Multistage stratified sampling techniques were used to create a representative sample of 1,508 Lithuanian residents aged eighteen years and older. A measurement of attitudes was created by the authors based on the ideas about the tripartite attitude structure: measuring multiple attributes from the areas of affect (feelings towards juvenile offenders), cognition (explanations of the causes of juvenile offending), and action (measures for reduction of juvenile delinquency). The study revealed that almost half of Lithuanians hold punitive attitudes towards juvenile delinquents. These punitive attitudes correlate with negative feelings towards juvenile delinquents related to common stereotypes and inaccurate explanations of the causes of juvenile delinquency. Punitiveness was also connected with fears of “bad” Western influences such as the perceived overvaluing of children’s rights and disapproval of violence against children and authoritarian parenting. The statement “Is juvenile delinquency in Lithuania increasing because of the bad influence of the West” divided the Lithuanian population into two almost equal groups: “Pro-Westerners” and “Anti-Westerners.” “Anti-Westerners” were more likely to hold authoritarian views, while “Anti-Western” attitudes were more prevalent among older, less-educated, and lower-income citizens.

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Threat Appraisal and Authoritarianism in Context: Reactions to the European Union Enlargement in Border Regions

Threat Appraisal and Authoritarianism in Context: Reactions to the European Union Enlargement in Border Regions

Psychological motives and political orientation--The left, the right, and the rigid: Comment on Jost et al. (2003).

“Is Juvenile Delinquency in Lithuania Increasing because of the Bad Influence of the West”? Punitive Attitudes of the Lithuanian Population towards Juvenile Offenders

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