Ethnocentric and anti-democratic attitudes sometimes coexisted with left-leaning political views
Evidence
It was ethnocentrism, anti-Semitism, and potentiality for fascism that were most strongly interrelated. These attitudes and personality characteristics tended to be associated with conservatism in political and economic matters but not so strongly as they were associated with one another. This pattern suggests that there may have been quite a few ethnocentric and antidemocratic subjects who were leftish liberal in the political and economic sphere. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 495
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the broader authoritarian-personality literature and the later ‘working-class authoritarianism’ debate (Lipset); also echoes the idea that political-ideological dimensions are not reducible to one another. — connects to: Only 15% of German workers structurally matched left-wing parties in personality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 708; The anti-Semite’s conflict mirrors a clash between prejudiced and democratic norms — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1792; Empirical results failed to link ethnocentrism directly to political-economic conservatism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1801 (+4 more)
- SEED: Angle: the classic research finding that left-wing economic views and right-wing social-psychological attitudes can co-occur — and what this means for the modern ‘horseshoe theory’ or cross-cutting cleavage debates.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 495