Authoritarianism

academic development, and Roopnarine et al (2006) and Jaeger et al (2013) look at the relationship between parental authoritarianism and children’s academic skills and social behaviours. The relationship between authoritarian parenting and educational outcome is well-researched, but there is a gap in the literature pertaining specifically to the relationship between parental authoritarianism and childhood resilience, and that is the gap that this study is designed to…

Australia is a multicultural country renowned for its general openness to other cultures. Some believe the treatment of Indigenous Australians has often been discounted or simply not adequately addressed with racial and discrimination issues still prevalent (Pedersen, Walker, & Griffiths, 2004). Research has suggested there are two types of racism. ‘Old-fashioned’ racism is characterised by beliefs minority out-groups such as Indigenous Australians are inferior. Segregation and open prejudice…

The Enlightenment, the proliferation of rational ideas throughout the 18th Century, has a dualistic political legacy. The paradoxes it produced were liberalism - emphasising political freedom and representation - and authoritarianism, imperialism and independence. Religion, instead of being displaced by reason, remained to influence and reflect the Enlightenment’s political legacies. Kant may stress “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage” from Christianity but…

American Society can therefore be understood as a social hierarchy with a white population at the top and a negative black reference group at the bottom. Current social psychology models used to explain prejudice and discrimination are right-wing authoritarianism, frustration-aggression hypothesis and belief congruence. It will be argued that social dominace theory best explains racism between whites and African Americans in the United States of America due to the hierarchical social structure…

The world has observed some of the greatest balance of powers in history between countries that have dominated economically and politically. The People’s Republic of China (of which will be referred to as its conventional short form China) has remained powerful for an extensive period of time, having a far-reaching impact on the political and economic atmospheres of the world. China has seen a vast history, especially during the Communist era and the former leader Chairman Mao Zedong, founder of…

biggest drawback of democracy though is the fact that sometimes the rulers act on their own behalf instead of the population in general which can cause a lot of problems. As established by this paper, democracy is a superior form of governance to authoritarianism, but to narrow down the debate even more, it would be useful to figure out exactly which form of democracy is in fact the…

What comes out of paranoia and fear? A desire for control. This simplified concept applies when considering the gradual and predictable rise of authoritarianism in the United States. The past decade has brought on events which have generated chaos and uncertainty in particular groups of American people. Great social and cultural change has seen white and traditionally Republican voters feel the threat of outside intervention. This subtle but overwhelming emotion has created the demand for an…

beauty. The relevance of bush poetry is still eminently evident throughout society and oral storytelling today. In storytelling today, it is present in the use of diction, in the representation of outcasts in society and in the concern for anti-authoritarianism as a quintessential Australian value. Bush poetry also helps build national character, keeping Australia’s history alive years on. Through the analysis of Waltzing Matilda against Khe Sanh, the qualities of bush poetry can still be found…

Although Parliamentary PR systems have been systematized in the literature as the “most” democratic regime, viewing the case of Israel through the lens of modernization theory as well as Bellin’s requisites for authoritarianism, it is evident that the suppression of women and minorities, as well as the existence of a credible threat provides plausible explanation for a drop in democracy over the time span of 1967-1999. Due to its unique beginning, Israel’s fluctuations in democracy cannot be…

Contemplating of the components of what leadership is, society has a variety of definitions on what defines a leader. For one individual, a leader could be a person that has wonderful interpersonal skills, can communicate flawlessly, and can plan activates accordingly. For another person, leadership can entail being an emotional person, being humble and asking for help when needed and can independent while being dependent on others. However, the concept of leadership is much more complex than…