B.A. Degree Final Thesis: The Authoritarians. A study of politics and psychology (original) (raw)

My thesis for a B.A. degree at the University of Iceland. It is a critical analysis of the RWA (Right Wing Authoritarianism) theory by Altemeyer and more recent iterations of it. Its strengths, its weaknesses and how it has been used and applied in research. Through this analysis the aim was to get a clearer understanding of the nature of authoritarianism as a feature of personality rather than ideology and the efficacy of Altemeyer's theory as a psychological metric to measure authoritarianism as a variable.