A review by misssusan
The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer

3.0

so altemeyer's done a lot of research on authority compliant personalities (he calls them right wing authoritarians and explains his reasoning for the term but because it's pretty misleading at a glance -- doesn't have anything to do with politics even though at the moment, a significant segment of them have taken over right wing parties in the western world) and this basically lays out what he's found about how they think and how the unification of authority compliant personalities and socially dominant personalities are BAD NEWS BEARS for democracy. someone linked it to me as an explanation for the recent US election and i buy it, i just wish he'd spent a little longer on strategies for instilling a stronger sense of ethics and rationality in said personalities. also the partisan bent will probably rub some readers wrong though i do believe him when he says he's just following the data there

3 stars