Authoritarianism, perceptions of security threats, and the COVID-19 pandemic: A new perspective
Authoritarianism, perceptions of security threats, and the COVID-19 pandemic: A new perspective
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威权主义、安全威胁认知和 COVID-19 大流行：新视角
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10.1017/pls.2023.12
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2023
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Stevens D
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这篇文章提供了一个新的视角，说明个人层面的权威主义对安全威胁的看法何时以及为什么会发生变化。我们重新审视了公众中的专制成员以违反直觉的方式应对COVID-19大流行的说法。这种反应是违反直觉的，因为专制人士不希望有一个更强大的政府，有能力采取措施应对疫情及其后果，而是拒绝政府采取更强有力的应对措施，接受个人自治。本文借鉴了对安全威胁（直接或间接损害个人或集体安全和福利的问题）的看法，这些看法来自英国在两种不同背景下的调查：2012年，对传染病威胁的看法相对于大多数其他安全威胁而言较低；2020年，对COVID-19个人和集体威胁的看法取代了所有其他安全威胁。我们认为，一旦考虑到它所代表的威胁类型，威权主义的反应并不是违反直觉的。
This article offers a new perspective on when and why individual-level authoritarian perceptions of security threats change. We reexamine claims that authoritarian members of the public responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in a counterintuitive fashion. The response was counterintuitive in that, rather than a desire for a stronger government with the ability to impose measures to address the pandemic and its consequences, authoritarian individuals rejected a stronger government response and embraced individual autonomy. The article draws on perceptions of security threats—issues that directly or indirectly harm personal or collective safety and welfare—from surveys in two different contexts in England: 2012, when perceptions of the threat from infectious disease was low relative to most other security threats, and 2020, when perceptions of the personal and collective threat of COVID-19 superseded all other security threats. We argue that the authoritarian response was not counterintuitive once we account for the type of threat it represented.