Street-level violence makes ordinary people more right-wing authoritarian

Evidence

Students (and parents) reacted to this scenario by becoming significantly more authoritarian, probably hoping the government would crush the extremists. Thus people seem spring-loaded to become more right-wing authoritarian when there is trouble in the streets. But that is exactly the direction an authoritarian leader would want them to go. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1178

Categorization

• XREF: Gives the micro-behavioral causal mechanism underlying Cooper and Whitehead & Perry’s claims about authoritarian reactions to perceived threat.
• ADDENDUM: Causal mechanism for when authoritarian leaders manufacture or exploit threat rather than merely respond to it. Could fit the sacrifice essay’s framing of top-down order maintenance.