Canadian students grew more authoritarian through the 1980s then eased in the 1990s

Evidence

Figure 2.1 shows the means for the Continuing Twelve over the period 1973-1995. You can see that for quite a while the students kept showing up more and more authoritarian. Doonesbury’s and others’ observation that “leftist radicals” disappeared during the 1980s and student bodies became more right-wing overall appears confirmed. Whatever the 1990s have brought, at least undergraduates these days appear a little less authoritarian than their older brothers and sisters were. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 732