High-authoritarianism legislators favor restrictions that limit civil liberties
Evidence
Most of the respondents indicated they would not support the laws reducing freedoms that Americans presently enjoy. The mean responses ranged from 2.74 (outlawing Communists and other radicals) to 3.80 (giving police much wider powers). But in every case, High RWAs favored these laws more than anyone else. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3628
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- QUESTION: The correlations seem to have dropped out of the excerpt; worth checking the original text for the exact r values.
Related
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- High authoritarians endorse police power and wartime protest suppression simultaneously (similarity 0.82)
- Right-wing authoritarians among legislators oppose freedom and equality at a .84 correlation (similarity 0.82)
- High authoritarians are less likely to respond to surveys (similarity 0.81)
- Authoritarian legislators favor giving judges wider capital punishment options (similarity 0.80)
- Low authoritarians show double standards favoring liberal figures and causes (similarity 0.80)
- Very high authoritarians hold elected office in most state legislatures (similarity 0.79)
- Lawmakers’ anti-freedom and anti-equality stances form one coherent dimension (similarity 0.79)
- Authoritarian lawmakers would dismantle rights even without crisis or war (similarity 0.79)
- High-authoritarian officials would dismantle rights absent any crisis to justify it (similarity 0.79)
- Authoritarian lawmakers accept and defend extreme wealth inequality (similarity 0.78)
- Many conservatives differ from violent authoritarians only in degree, not kind (similarity 0.78)
- Authoritarian lawmakers openly want the rich to stay rich and oppose equality. (similarity 0.78)