Democracy, Authoritarianism and Education

"This book is a cross-national study of authoritarianism and democracy, elaborating on the work of Adorno, et al., in The Authoritarian Personality (1950). It lays out political and educational similarities and difference for forty-four countries, focusing on the empirical interrelationship of key concepts. Based on surveys of students in those countries, we see a pattern which empirically relates anti-authority, prodemocracy, promulticulturalism, proliberal education, prointernationalism, antinationalism, and antimilitarism. Adorno et al. showed how authoritarianism is related to political and psychological attitudes.

In this study the first intercorrelations are presented between authoritarianism and one's choices on education policy questions such as multiculturalism, internationalism, and oper teaching styles. The analysis also indicates that the nature of the political system is most critical in determining the democratic or authoritarian character of a given political culture and the psychological types it produces."--Jacket.