Authoritarianism and Threat in 59 Nations

These results provide the largest multinational test to date on the threat-authoritarianism link and offer numerous advances over prior research on the topic. Not only do they contribute large-scale evidence for a key assumption of most authoritarianism theories in an era where many theories and findings are being reevaluated, but they also provide theoretical advances in our understanding of the specific nature of the threat-authoritarianism link.