The authoritarian divide : partisan identity, voting, and the transformation of the American electorate / Christopher M. Federico, Stanley Feldman, Christopher Weber.
| Author/creator | Federico, Christopher M., 1972- author. |
| Other author | Feldman, Stanley, author. |
| Other author | Weber, Christopher (Professor of political psychology), author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | ix, 222 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Series in political psychology Series in political psychology. ^A796797 |
| Contents | The authoritarian tide -- The political and psychological dynamics of authoritarianism -- Assessing authoritarianism in the American public -- The authoritarian belief system -- The contingent trajectory of authoritarian sorting among Whites -- Authoritarianism and the mechanisms of partisan sorting -- Authoritarianism and sociocultural issue defection -- Authoritarianism and its consequences in an ideologically divided party system -- Authoritarianism and anti-democratic attitudes in the Trump era -- Authoritarianism and the future of American democracy. |
| Abstract | "In this book, we identify the factors that have shaped and conditioned the sorting of Americans into different belief patterns and partisan camps as a function of authoritarianism over the past 30 years. We show, through the use of nationally-representative samples, panel data, and experiments, how authoritarianism has increasingly structured a wide range of attitudes, how it has become a growing influence on vote choice, and how the parties have sorted on authoritarianism. However , we make the case that the impact of authoritarianism on the evolution of partisanship and mass opinion in America has been more complex and contingent than previous treatments have suggested. First, it appears to be limited primarily to White Americans. Second, it has not unfolded over time even among Whites in a simple, linear fashion. Rather, authoritarian sorting intensifies only when the parties offer choices that are differentially appealing to those low and high in authoritarianism. Third, authoritarian sorting has proceeded in different ways for White Americans with different levels of education. We also show that authoritarianism increasingly constraints White Americans' sociocultural belief systems, their perceptions of ideological polarization between the parties, and the extent to which they rely on judgments of ideological closeness to the two parties when voting. Finally, though anti-democratic attitudes are more pronounced among White Republicans, we show that authoritarianism predicts anti-democratic attitudes among White Americans within both parties. Our findings, in turn, have important consequences for how to understand partisan conflict in the US and the health of American democracy"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Federico, Christopher M. (Christopher Michael), 1972- Authoritarian divide New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026] 9780197813355 |
| LCCN | 2025036571 |
| ISBN | 9780197813348 |
| ISBN | 0197813348 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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