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Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
What is Authoritarianism?
Notes
Chapter 1
Right-Wing and Left-Wing Authoritarian Followers
The RWA Scale
Is the RWA Scale Valid?
Unauthoritarians and Authoritarians: Worlds of Difference
The Low RWA Game
The High RWA Game
Summary
Notes
Chapter 2
A Psychoanalytic Explanation
Bandura’s Social Learning Theory of Aggression
The Personal Origins of Right-Wing Authoritarianism
A Tale of Two High School Seniors
The “Middles”
Then There’s The Rest of Life
Notes
Chapter Three
1. Illogical Thinking
2. Highly Compartmentalized Minds
3. Double Standards
4. Hypocrisy
5. Blindness To Themselves
6. A Profound Ethnocentrism
7. Dogmatism: The Authoritarian’s Last Ditch Defense
A Little Application
Chapter Four
The Plan for This Chapter
1. Fundamentalists and Evangelicals in America
2. Fundamentalism and Right-Wing Authoritarianism
3. Fundamentalism as a Template for Prejudice
4. The Mental Life of Fundamentalists
5. Happiness, Joy and Comfort
6. Keeping the Faith, Not
7. Shortfalls in Fundamentalists’ Behavior: Hypocrisy
Summary: So What Does All This Amount To?
Notes
Chapter Five
Similarities and Differences Between Social Dominators and Authoritarian Followers
Personal Origins of the Social Domination Orientation
An Experiment Combining Social Dominators and Right-Wing Authoritarians
Double Highs: The Dominating Authoritarian Personality
An Experiment Testing the Interaction of Authoritarian Leaders and Followers
Perspective and Application
Chapter 6
Authoritarianism among American State Legislators
Other Issues
Average RWA Scale Scores of American State Legislators, by State and Party
Double Highs in the Legislatures?
Canadian Legislators
Religious Conservatives and the Republican Party
The 2006 Mid-Term Election
A Bit of Modest Speculation
Notes
Chapter 7
Self-Righteousness Begins at Home
Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience
Why, then?
The “Teaching Team” Conditions and Social Psychology’s Great Discovery
Ordinary Men
So What’s Your Point?
What’s To Be Done?
Long-term Reductions in Authoritarianism: Wishing for the Moon
Long-term Reductions in Authoritarianism: More Practical Solutions
The Short Run Imperative: Speak Out Now or Forever, Perhaps, Be Silenced
Notes
Postscript on the 2008 Election
Part I–Written Right After the Republican Convention
Postscript—Part II
Part III–Written on November 5, 2008
Comment on the Tea Party Movement
A Brief History of the Movement
Are Tea Partiers Ordinary Citizens? Three Recent Polls
Authoritarian Followers
The Other Authoritarian Personality
Summary
What will the future bring?
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