...more recent posts
...former Nixon Whitehouse counsel John Dean has a fascinating new book out called "Conservatives Without Conscience"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670037745/sr=8-1/qid=1153338179/ref=pd _bbs_1/103-2568283-7396653?ie=UTF8
The core of the books is his presentation of current research on the connection between contemporary so-called "conservativism" and a distinctly right-wing authoritarian mindset.
A couple of university-level peer-reviewed studies Dean cites can be found here:
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~hannahk/gjonas.pdf
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~hannahk/reply.pdf
Money quote:
"the current state of evidence warrants the conclusion that (at least in the general population) right-wing conservatism is positively related to dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity; uncertainty avoidance; fear of threat, loss, and death; system instability; and epistemic needs to achieve order, structure, and closure, as well as negatively related to openness to experience, integrative complexity, and (to a lesser extent) self-esteem."
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