Right-Wing Authoritarianism

by Bob Altemeyer

Altemeyer begins by closely examining the scientific lieterature on right-wing authoritarianism. This timely volume surveys the history of social psychological research on right-wing authoritarianism and describes a more fruitful direction for future work. It concludes with a disturbing comment on the pervasiveness of autoritarian behaviour in our society.

Genres: Political Science

364 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1981

About the author

Robert "Bob" Altemeyer is a retired Professor of Psychology at the University of Manitoba. Born in St. Louis, he earned a B.S. at Yale University in 1962 and a Ph.D at Carnegie-Mellon in 1966.

He has written extensively on authoritarianism and refined the theory into the concept (and measure) of Right Wing Authoritarianism. His first book, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, was published in 1981 and reports the results of fifteen years of research on the 'pre-Fascist personality' in North American society.

Reviews

[Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Actually, just finished reading this book of Altemeyer's on the same theme. Available here: http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/... Illuminating.