The Authoritarian Divide

Christopher M. Federico is Professor of Political Science and Psychology at the University of Minnesota and the Arleen C. Carlson Professor of American Government and Politics. He currently serves as President of the International Society of Political Psychology and he is a former Director of the University of Minnesota's Center for the Study of Political Psychology. A political psychologist with interests that cross disciplinary boundaries, his research focuses in particular on the nature of ideology and belief systems, the psychological foundations of political preferences, and intergroup attitudes.Stanley Feldman is a Toll Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University. He is a past president of the International Society for Political Psychology and the Political Methodology section of the American Political Science Association. His research focuses on the origins of political preferences. He is particularly interested in the structure of political ideology and values, andthe psychological bases of attitudes and opinions. His published work has examined the impact of personality characteristics on political attitudes, particularly authoritarianism. Christopher Weber is a Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. His interests reside in political psychology and methodology, with a focus on political ideology, measurement, and causal inference. He currently serves as Director of the Arizona Voter Project, a non-partisan initiative supported by the University of Arizona to advance knowledge of the Arizona population through data visualization and analysis.

• 1: The Authoritarian Tide 2: The Political and Psychological Dynamics of Authoritarianism 3: Assessing Authoritarianism in the American Public 4: The Authoritarian Belief System 5: The Contingent Trajectory of Authoritarian Sorting Among White Americans 6: Authoritarianism and the Mechanisms of Partisan Sorting 7: Authoritarianism and Sociocultural Issue Defection 8: Authoritarianism and Its Consequences in an Ideologically Divided Party System 9: Authoritarianism and Antidemocratic Attitudes in the Trump Era 10: Authoritarianism and the Future of American Democracy 11: Chapter Appendices