The authoritarian dynamic and Brexit: Understanding the relationship between authoritarianism and wanting to leave the EU
dc.contributor.author | Stevens, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Banducci, S | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T10:19:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-11-15 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-11-09T07:14:57Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Individual-level authoritarianism is prominent in explanations of preferences for Brexit. We contend that extant accounts have provided an incomplete theoretical and empirical understanding of this relationship. Drawing on the idea of the ‘authoritarian dynamic’, we show that perceptions of the economic/cultural threat of immigration have stronger effects on the pro-Brexit views of individuals with weak authoritarian predispositions (libertarians). At the same time, perceptions of normative threat, which pertain to concerns like loss of faith in or lack of consensus among established authorities, have a greater impact on the pro-Brexit views of individuals with high authoritarian predispositions (authoritarians). These conditional relationships, which have previously gone unacknowledged, are crucial to understanding which individuals are likely to respond to ‘increased threat’ with pro-Brexit attitudes. We demonstrate these relationships with pro-Brexit views using British Election Study longitudinal panel data. The results clarify the conditional impact of threats and authoritarian predispositions on attitudes. | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 518-530 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 53(3), pp. 518-530 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2920 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/134473 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0003-0990-8237 (Stevens, Daniel) | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-1874-5110 (Banducci, Susan) | |
dc.identifier | ScopusID: 6602733599 (Banducci, Susan) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.britishelectionstudy.com/data-objects/panel-study-data/ | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2022 The Authors. European Journal of Social Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | authoritarianism | en_GB |
dc.subject | Brexit | en_GB |
dc.subject | normative threat | en_GB |
dc.subject | personal threat | en_GB |
dc.title | The authoritarian dynamic and Brexit: Understanding the relationship between authoritarianism and wanting to leave the EU | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T10:19:58Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0046-2772 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Wiley via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability statement: The data are available at https://www.britishelectionstudy.com/data-objects/panel-study-data/ | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1099-0992 | |
dc.identifier.journal | European Journal of Social Psychology | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(3) | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-09-23 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-11-15 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-11-09T10:18:19Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-11-09T10:19:58Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2022-11-15 |
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