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Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat
New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, adopted a “go hard, go early” approach to eliminate COVID-19. Although Ardern and her Labour party are considered left-leaning, the policies implemented during the pandemic (e.g., police roadblocks) have the hallmarks of Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA)...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9295988/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35853036 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269930 |
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author | Winter, Taylor Jose, Paul E. Riordan, Benjamin C. Bizumic, Boris Ruffman, Ted Hunter, John A. Hartman, Todd K. Scarf, Damian |
author_facet | Winter, Taylor Jose, Paul E. Riordan, Benjamin C. Bizumic, Boris Ruffman, Ted Hunter, John A. Hartman, Todd K. Scarf, Damian |
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description | New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, adopted a “go hard, go early” approach to eliminate COVID-19. Although Ardern and her Labour party are considered left-leaning, the policies implemented during the pandemic (e.g., police roadblocks) have the hallmarks of Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA). RWA is characterized by three attitudinal clusters (authoritarian aggression, submission, and conventionalism). The uniqueness of the clusters, and whether they react to environmental change, has been debated. Here, in the context of the pandemic, we investigate the relationship between political orientation and RWA. Specifically, we measured political orientation, support for New Zealand’s major political parties, and RWA among 1,430 adult community members. A multivariate Bayesian model demonstrated that, in the middle of a pandemic, both left-leaning and right-leaning individuals endorsed items tapping authoritarian submission. In contrast to authoritarian submission, and demonstrating the multidimensional nature of RWA, we observed the typical relationships between political orientation and authoritarian aggression and conventionalism was observed. |
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spelling | pubmed-92959882022-07-20 Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat Winter, Taylor Jose, Paul E. Riordan, Benjamin C. Bizumic, Boris Ruffman, Ted Hunter, John A. Hartman, Todd K. Scarf, Damian PLoS One Research Article New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, adopted a “go hard, go early” approach to eliminate COVID-19. Although Ardern and her Labour party are considered left-leaning, the policies implemented during the pandemic (e.g., police roadblocks) have the hallmarks of Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA). RWA is characterized by three attitudinal clusters (authoritarian aggression, submission, and conventionalism). The uniqueness of the clusters, and whether they react to environmental change, has been debated. Here, in the context of the pandemic, we investigate the relationship between political orientation and RWA. Specifically, we measured political orientation, support for New Zealand’s major political parties, and RWA among 1,430 adult community members. A multivariate Bayesian model demonstrated that, in the middle of a pandemic, both left-leaning and right-leaning individuals endorsed items tapping authoritarian submission. In contrast to authoritarian submission, and demonstrating the multidimensional nature of RWA, we observed the typical relationships between political orientation and authoritarian aggression and conventionalism was observed. Public Library of Science 2022-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9295988/ /pubmed/35853036 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269930 Text en © 2022 Winter et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Winter, Taylor Jose, Paul E. Riordan, Benjamin C. Bizumic, Boris Ruffman, Ted Hunter, John A. Hartman, Todd K. Scarf, Damian Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat |
title | Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat |
title_full | Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat |
title_fullStr | Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat |
title_full_unstemmed | Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat |
title_short | Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat |
title_sort | left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9295988/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35853036 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269930 |
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