Authoritarianism links to right-wing politics across hostile national groups

Evidence

In Israel, Rubinstein (1996) discovered High RWA Jewish students tended to identify with the right-wing and religious parties. In turn, Palestinian Highs also tended to support “extreme right-wing parties—most of them religiously fundamentalist.” The eta-squared values were 17% and 34%, respectively, analogous to correlations of . and .58. (The relationships are probably high in Israel because religion mixes strongly with politics there, as it increasingly does in the United States.) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 502

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the cross-cultural moral panic dynamics in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ - religion mixing with political identity across otherwise hostile groups. — connects to: Chile’s traditional right founded a new authoritarian nationalist party after electoral collapse — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1553