Both deprivation and relative gratification explain individual political violence

Evidence

In his early (now much modified) report (1968a, p. 1121), certain highly contextual factors presumed related to the possibility of violence (e.g., transportation networks, density of population, other geographic characteristics, and “external support of insurgents”) account for more variance in magnitude of civil strife than anything else (twice as much as persistent deprivation!). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4323 (#complicates, via linked claim)

I propose that all these events, and others including the World Trade Center bombing and the Oklahoma City bombing, are in one respect the same story. The connecting link is a certain kind of personality: the right-wing authoritarian. By the time you finish this book, you may recognize this personality playing its role in much of your daily news, too. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 75 (#complicates, via linked claim)

[W]hat is at stake here is not an attempt to explain individual violence that finds its roots in personal passions, desires, hate, greed. On the contrary, it is significant that the mechanisms of the two kinds of violent action (individual and group) are different and manifest themselves differently in the same individuals, who may have a radically different propensity to have recourse to group versus individual violence. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 382 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Scarcity makes human existence itself a threat to others and the root of violence — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 472; Work failure, social rejection, and abuse predict resorting to political violence — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 160; Political violence arises from frustration over unmet value expectations (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Contextual facilitation factors predict civil strife more than deprivation does #complicates (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4323
• A single authoritarian personality type links disparate political violence events #complicates (0.75) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 75
• Individual and collective violence operate through separate psychological mechanisms #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 382