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

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dc.contributor.authorWinter, Taylor
dc.contributor.authorJose PE
dc.contributor.authorRiordan BC
dc.contributor.authorBizumic B
dc.contributor.authorRuffman T
dc.contributor.authorHunter JA
dc.contributor.authorHartman TK
dc.contributor.authorScarf D
dc.contributor.editorJasny LS
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-10T22:24:03Z
dc.date.available2025-02-10T22:24:03Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractNew 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 been debated. Here, in the context of the pandemic, we investigate the relationship between political orientation and RWA. Specifically, we measured political orientation, support for New Zealand's major political parties, and RWA among 1,430 adult community members. A multivariate Bayesian model demonstrated that, in the middle of a pandemic, both left-leaning and right-leaning individuals endorsed items tapping authoritarian submission. In contrast to authoritarian submission, and demonstrating the multidimensional nature of RWA, we observed the typical relationships between political orientation and authoritarian aggression and conventionalism was observed.
dc.identifier.citationWinter T, Jose PE, Riordan BC, Bizumic B, Ruffman T, Hunter JA, Hartman TK, Scarf D (2022). Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat. PLoS ONE. 17(7 July). e0269930-.
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269930
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/107974
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science (PLoS)
dc.rightsCopyright: © 2022 Winter et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectBayes Theorem
dc.subjectAggression
dc.subjectAuthoritarianism
dc.subjectPolitics
dc.subjectAdult
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subject.anzsrc52 - Psychology::5205 - Social and personality psychology::520505 - Social psychology
dc.subject.anzsrc52 - Psychology::5205 - Social and personality psychology::520501 - Community psychology
dc.subject.anzsrc44 - Human society::4408 - Political science::440809 - New Zealand government and politics
dc.subject.anzsrc44 - Human society::4408 - Political science::440811 - Political theory and political philosophy
dc.titleLeft-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat
dc.typeJournal Article
uc.collegeFaculty of Engineering
uc.departmentMathematics and Statistics
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