Genocide-enabling cultural conditions must be analyzed at the organizational level.

Evidence

The part of Staub’s analysis that I have presented gives us the preconditions for a culture becoming “genocidal,” more specifically, for the national leadership turning to killing members of an outgroup existing within or at the margins of that nation. But the analysis seems equally applicable at the organizational level. The cultural forces that he identifies must be the background conditions for the formation of organizations that actually carry out the genocide. With this as background, we can now (at last) turn to questions concerning the formation of those organizations. If it is a central claim of the social psychological analysis that evildoing is frequently a product of organizational processes, then it is necessary to delineate how the organizations that come to produce evil outcomes and evildoing individuals come into being and reproduce themselves. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3982