Political personality typologies trace to Plato’s intergenerational rebellion account

Evidence

Political personality typologies of the second, more comprehensive variety go back at least to Plato’s account in the eighth and ninth books of The Republic of the aristocrat, the democrat, the timocrat, and the tyrant—political types that Plato believed were shaped in an intergenerational dialectic of rebellion of sons against their fathers’ perceived shortcomings. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1177