CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Fanaca, Adrian |
|---|---|
| Title | Does authoritarian personality covary with populist attitude? A gender differences cross-sectional study based on a sample from the USA Amazon s Mechanical Turk |
| Summary | This study contributes to a better understanding of gender differences in personality and political attitudes. Men and women differ in a plethora of attitudes, from expressing interest in politics to the level of political knowledge. (Burns, Schlozman, & Verba, 2001) In this study, I test the assertion that authoritarian personality overlaps with populist attitude (Hawkins, Ridding, & Mudde, 2012) and show that in the case of male respondents there is a significant (p=0.01) and negative (-0.15, standardized result) relationship between these two concepts, while in case of women there is not enough evidence to claim the same (p=0.09). For women, being traditional does not trigger populist attitudes like in the case of men. In order to show this, I have used structural equation modeling (SEM). The data came from a study made online in 2012 on the Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk online platform and consisted of 644 respondents, all residents in the United States of America at the moment of the survey. This study has potential applications in educational policy, political communication and political psychology. |
| Supervisor | Levente Littvay |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/fanaca_adrian.pdf |
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