TY - JOUR
T1 - Dictators and Their Subjects
T2 - Authoritarian Attitudinal Effects and Legacies
AU - Neundorf, Anja
AU - Pop-Eleches, Grigore
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the CPS editors and the three anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback and suggestions, which have helped us strengthen the article and clarify our contribution. We would further like to thank the contributors of this special issue who have very much influenced the work that went into this article: Elias Dinas, Johannes Gerschewski, Ksenia Northmore-Ball, Roman G. Olar, Katerina Tertytchnaya, and Joshua Tucker. Finally, we would like to thank the participants of the 2017 ECPR Joint Session Workshop “The Legacy of Authoritarian Regimes—Political Culture, Institutions, and Democratization” (University of Nottingham). The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The research of this article was generously funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)—Secondary Data Analysis Initiative Project: “The Legacy of Authoritarian Regimes on Democratic Citizenship” (code: ES/N012127/1).
Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The research of this article was generously funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)—Secondary Data Analysis Initiative Project: “The Legacy of Authoritarian Regimes on Democratic Citizenship” (code: ES/N012127/1).
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PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - This introductory essay outlines the key themes of the special issue on the long-term impact of autocracies on the political attitudes and behavior of their subjects. Here, we highlight several important areas of theoretical and empirical refinements, which can provide a more nuanced picture of the process through which authoritarian attitudinal legacies emerge and persist. First, we define the nature of attitudinal legacies and their driving mechanisms, developing a framework of competing socialization. Second, we use the competing socialization framework to explain two potential sources of heterogeneity in attitudinal and behavioral legacies: varieties of institutional features of authoritarian regimes, which affect the nature of regime socialization efforts; and variations across different subgroups of (post-)authoritarian citizens, which reflect the nature and strength of alternative socialization efforts. This new framework can help us to better understand contradictory findings in this emerging literature as well as set a new agenda for future research.
AB - This introductory essay outlines the key themes of the special issue on the long-term impact of autocracies on the political attitudes and behavior of their subjects. Here, we highlight several important areas of theoretical and empirical refinements, which can provide a more nuanced picture of the process through which authoritarian attitudinal legacies emerge and persist. First, we define the nature of attitudinal legacies and their driving mechanisms, developing a framework of competing socialization. Second, we use the competing socialization framework to explain two potential sources of heterogeneity in attitudinal and behavioral legacies: varieties of institutional features of authoritarian regimes, which affect the nature of regime socialization efforts; and variations across different subgroups of (post-)authoritarian citizens, which reflect the nature and strength of alternative socialization efforts. This new framework can help us to better understand contradictory findings in this emerging literature as well as set a new agenda for future research.
KW - authoritarian legacies
KW - authoritarian regimes
KW - indoctrination
KW - political behavior
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U2 - 10.1177/0010414020926203
DO - 10.1177/0010414020926203
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086268469
SN - 0010-4140
VL - 53
SP - 1839
EP - 1860
JO - Comparative Political Studies
JF - Comparative Political Studies
IS - 12
ER -