Karen Stenner Books

To develop a coherent understanding of authoritarianism, I begin by clarifying what it is—and what it is not. Authoritarianism is not merely an ideological stance or a set of learned attitudes. It is best understood as a predisposition: a psychological inclination toward social conformity and moral ...

From The Authoritarian Dynamic

The central construct of my theory, the ‘authoritarian dynamic,’ describes how latent predispositions interact with environmental cues to yield observable intolerance. The theory posits three fundamental components: an underlying predisposition toward oneness and order, a triggering condition or nor...

From The Authoritarian Dynamic