@article{ref1,
title="National threat and political culture: authoritarianism, antiauthoritarianism, and the September 11 attacks",
journal="Political psychology",
year="2005",
author="Perrin, Andrew J.",
volume="26",
number="2",
pages="167-194",
abstract="This paper uses published letters to the editor of major U.S. newspapers to investigate the cultural effects of a major national threat: the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It is based on a hand-coded, stratified random sample of 1,100 letters to the editor published in 17 major papers in the United States (544 pre-September 11, 556 post-September 11). The letters are drawn from a population of 8,101 published letters. Degrees of both authoritarianism and antiauthoritarianism, as well as the general salience of questions of authoritarianism, rose significantly in the post-attack period. The paper suggests that, instead of a simple threat-authoritarianism causal link, authoritarianism and antiauthoritarianism are paired elements of political culture that are invoked together in the face of a national threat.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0162-895X",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-9221.2005.00414.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2005.00414.x"
}