Authoritarianism and Prejudice: Central European Perspectives
edited by Zsolt Enyedi and Ferenc Erős
Osiris , Budapest, Hungary 1999
306 pages, ISBN 963 379 707 1, paperback 26$

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There is consensus on the relevance of authoritarianism and racism in the social and political life of European societies, but there have been few attempts at combining the knowledge gained from empirical research done in both new and old democracies of the continent. The book “Authoritarianism and Prejudice: Central European Perspectives” is a truly international enterprise which aims at answering the following questions: How can we measure authoritarianism, ethnocentrism and prejudices? In what way authoritarian and nationalist attitudes are combined with political-ideological affiliations? Are attitudes like antisemitism and anti-Gypsy sentiments similar or have they a different structure and logic? Can we explain prejudice and authoritarianism by referring to the impact of status, religion and education? Are new generations less or more xenophobic than their parents? Can we regard extreme right wing parties as transitory phenomena, or are they likely to stay with us?

 The readers are offered a systematic evaluation of the causes of ethnic hatred; an overview of the development of sociological and social psychological literature on the topic, particularly the studies emanating from the famous work by Adorno et. al., The Authoritarian Personality. There is a comparative evaluation of nationalism and authoritarianism among such groups as Eastern and Western Germans, Serbs and ethnic minorities in Yugoslavia, the religious and the atheists, the rich and the poor, the educated and the non-educated in a number of European countries. 

    Hungarian, Dutch, Yugoslav, Austrian, American and German scholars offer answers to these questions by looking at surveys and political documents from a number of countries. There is a special emphasis on the lessons learned from the quickly transforming and turbulent Central Europe.

The chapters include data analyses and methodological discussions that may benefit, first of all, university students, but the book offers new and revealing information for anyone interested in the mechanisms and in the explanations of ethnic intolerance.

 

 

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Authors

Werner Bergmann is Professor at the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University, Berlin, Germany.

ZSOLT ENYEDI is Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department, Central European University, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

Ferenc Erős is Professor at the Department of Social Psychology, Janus Pannonius University, Pécs, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

Zoltán Fleck is Lecturer at the Department for Legal Sociology, Faculty of Law, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest

Zoltán Fábián is Research Fellow at the Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Head of Data Archive and Information Technology Department at Social Science Informatics Centre (TÁRKI), Budapest, Hungary.

Russell F. Farnen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, Storrs and West Hartford, USA.

András Kovács is Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, Hungary.

Jos D. Meloen is Senior Researcher at the Leiden Institute of Social Science Research (LISWO), University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

Cas Mudde is Assistant Professor at the International Relations and European Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Koos Postma is Research Fellow at the “Research voor Beleid” (Institute for Policy Research), Leiden, The Netherlands.

Endre Sik is Reader at Budapest University of Economics, director of Research Center for International Migration and Refugee Studies at the Institute of Political Sciences of Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Senior Researcher at the Social Science Informatics Centre (TÁRKI), Budapest, Hungary.

BOJAN TODOSIJEVIC is Ph.D. candidate at the Political Science Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Hildegard Weiss is Professor at the Department of Social and Economic Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria.

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