Using World Values Survey data on seven European democracies, we explore how authoritarian attitudes often associated with Radical Right party support are related to both individual-level and macro-level influences. We find that socio-demographic variables, such as age, education and social class, have similar effects across countries. Nonetheless, even after controlling for these socio-demogra...

Numerous scholars have concluded that there is a correlation between use of social network sites (SNS), particularly for news and information acquisition or community building, and the likelihood for e-Participation. This paper examines how the use of Facebook affects the participative behaviours of individuals active in political and interest organizations and those not active in organized pol...

The collapse of the communist empire coincided with a new wave of constitution making. All the Eastern European countries introduced in the new constitutions an organ in charge of constitutional adjudication modeled on what we define below the Kelsenian type. This was neither surprising nor original. The same phenomenon happened in Southern Europe about 20 years ago after the collapse of fascis...

In recent decades, various theories and movements have been formed regarding women their role in human society, a number of experts sought to eliminate gender stereotypes arising from patriarchal culture. They identifying women. Among them is Clarissa Pincola Estes, who has taken an important step achieving dignity for with her theory creative the field classical Persian literature, despite dom...

A large literature examining advanced and consolidating democracies suggests that education increases political participation. However, in electoral authoritarian regimes, educated voters may instead deliberately disengage. If education increases critical capacities, political awareness, and support for democracy, educated citizens may believe that participation is futile or legitimates autocra...

Although research drew attention to the importance of both parental goal promotion and parental rearing style in explaining adolescent authoritarian submission (Right-Wing Authoritarianism or RWA) and authoritarian dominance (Social Dominance Orientation or SDO), research failed to examine their combined effects. This study examines the relative contribution of parenting goals (i.e. extrinsic v...

The objectives of this study were to assess the effects of parenting style and child emotionality on the development of proneness to shame in young girls, and the mediating effect of shame on the development of adjustment problems. Eighty-eight girls were assessed twice, at 3 and 5 years of age, along with their mothers and fathers. Shame was assessed by observations (reactions to failure and c...

the people within it. One way to conceive the strategic decision process is to paint These demands have been especially challenging for comtwo opposite cultural scenarios in business organizations, one panies operating in Latin America in recent years. After what totally authoritarian and the other totally empowering. In the has been described as the “lost decade” of the 1980s, national first, ...

Immigration and growing diversity have been linked with pathologies such as lower social capital, the rise of authoritarian populists, intergroup conflict, perhaps breakdown democracy itself. At heart this complex is a question relating to migration political culture: whether immigration erodes attitudes that sustain legitimize democratic systems. This paper takes time-series, cross-sectional a...