No strong evidence that authoritarian attitudes are driven by a lack of control [Social Sciences]

Kakkar and Sivanathan (1) provide new evidence of the link between economic crises and the preference for dominant leaders and strengthen previous evidence of the influence of economic crises on authoritarianism (2–5). However, the authors' interpretation of why economic uncertainty favors dominant leaders entails two further predictions that are not...

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