German students showed roughly twice as much authoritarian as democratic potential.

Evidence

Page 553 questioned who had been classed as genuine democrats' in terms of their political tendency, only six remained under these criteria. By contrast, 6 per cent of the sample were stubborn authoritarians, those whose political dispositions of commitment or thoughtful citizenship were combined with an authoritarian political tendency and an élitist view of society11 of the 37 who had been classed as authoritarian’ in terms of political tendency. When the criteria were relaxed, the proportions did not become more favourable. A definitely democratic potential' of 9 per cent contrasted with a definitely authoritarian potential’ of 16 per cent. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 581

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which study is this—the main Institute student survey or the 1959 Friedeburg supplementary study? The referent is unclear from the excerpt alone.
• XREF: connects to: West German students showed more authoritarian than democratic latent political potential — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2349
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: West German students showed more authoritarian than democratic latent political potential — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2349

Broader Connections

• West German students showed more authoritarian than democratic latent political potential #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2349