POL SCI 191A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Status Quo, Social Change, Party System
14 Mar 2017
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Challenging article bc you need to look at this. The strongest correlation/predictor it was a score on authoritarian scale. More people realizing that is not going to go away, proto fascist. Don"t believe in civil liberties democracies or rights. A different way of conceptualizing citizenship racist = no civil liberties. Skills at the basic level, all have different levels. Argument: the rise of american authoritarianism is transforming the gop and the dynamics of national politics w/ profound consequences likely to extend well beyond this election. Authoritarianism: a psychological profile triggered by the perception of threat. Rightwing populism: partisan, theory of activation of latent authoritarians, non-authoritarians fear of physical threat. A route to a now permanent electoral group. What does this have to do with neoliberalism. Social change that push the fear to activate authoritative was caused by neoliberalism. Immigrants cheap labor here or poverty increasing in their homes.
