Thesis
Exploration of acceptance of authoritarian style governance
Washington State University
Master of Public Affairs (MPA), Washington State University
2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/103695
Abstract
This paper seeks to explore sources of acceptance for authoritarian style governance using a quantitative approach and data taken from the World Values Survey. It looks at individual traits, country factors, and levels of perceived social threat as possible explanatory factors to why some individuals are more likely to believe that strong leader government is a good form of government. The research examines world data collected from sixty different country in aggregate as well as Germany, the USA, China, South Africa, India, and Russia in detail. The study finds that some factors such as country collectivism, individual authoritarianism, and perceived neighborhood instability can all have strong effects on an individual approving of a government ruled by a powerful encumbered leader. However, more important is the finding that there appears to be no clear universal predictor of acceptance, and that the effects of the factors are highly context dependent and vary greatly between countries. This study does not reach any definite conclusions as to how to predict authoritarian support but does lay solid groundwork for future inquiry by showing what factors can matter, and where those factors seem to matter most.
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- Title
- Exploration of acceptance of authoritarian style governance
- Creators
- Brody M. Sargent
- Contributors
- Anthony C. Lopez (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, School of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Public Affairs (MPA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900525052901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis