So it would be interesting to have data from other countries, whether the described connection is US-specific, or typical for most countries.
FWIW, “right” does appear to positively correlate with “authoritarian” in this graph. Whether this generalizes to non-Western countries I won’t speculate about.
I would say that in my country communists, nazis, catholics are authoritarian. (OK, these are not their official names, but their official names would not tell you much. For the record, it is: Direction; Slovak National Party; Christian Democratic Movement.) Communists are considered the left, catholics are the right, nazis are outside of this axis (they have their own minor axis: Slovak nationalists versus Hungarian minority).
I would guess that the authoritarian parties are traditional—they dream about return of the glorious past. But if the country had a complex history in recent century, it has multiple pasts it could return to. The communists think the golden era was 20 years ago, catholics think it was 100 and more years ago, nationalists think it was either 70 or 1000 years ago.
FWIW, “right” does appear to positively correlate with “authoritarian” in this graph. Whether this generalizes to non-Western countries I won’t speculate about.
I would say that in my country communists, nazis, catholics are authoritarian. (OK, these are not their official names, but their official names would not tell you much. For the record, it is: Direction; Slovak National Party; Christian Democratic Movement.) Communists are considered the left, catholics are the right, nazis are outside of this axis (they have their own minor axis: Slovak nationalists versus Hungarian minority).
I would guess that the authoritarian parties are traditional—they dream about return of the glorious past. But if the country had a complex history in recent century, it has multiple pasts it could return to. The communists think the golden era was 20 years ago, catholics think it was 100 and more years ago, nationalists think it was either 70 or 1000 years ago.
What sort of graph has contemporary UK as being equally authoritarian as Stalin? I am sceptical.