Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat

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Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat

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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...

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2022-07-19

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Winter, Taylor / Jose, Paul E. / Riordan, Benjamin C. / Bizumic, Boris / Ruffman, Ted / Hunter, John A. / Hartman, Todd K. / Scarf, Damian

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/23830

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Multidisciplinary Sciences / Science & Technology / Science & Technology - Other Topics

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