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Orientations Towards Authority and Congruency Theory

Orientations Towards Authority and Congruency Theory Orientations Towards Authority and Congruency Theory The Cross-national, Cross-time Evidence NEIL NEVITTE* and MEBS KANJI** ABSTRACT This paper employs the 1981 and 1990 World Values Surveys to demonstrate that publics in advanced industrial states have become less deferential both in general, as well as in the polity, the family, and the workplace. In addition, this analysis also provides broad-gauged prime facie support for the claim (Eckstein, 1966, 1969, 1975, 1992; Pateman, 1970; Kohn, 1969; Greenberg et al., 1995) that authority orientations across different domains are generalizable: attitudes toward authority in the polity, the family, and the workplace do indeed appear to be inter-connected. Furthermore, even under the most rigorous testing conditions, when multiple authority orientations are pitted against each other, and when various other prominent explanations are introduced, orientations toward authority in one domain turn out to be useful (i.e., statistically significant) estimates of authority orientations in another. 1. Introduction THERE IS NOW a vast body of evidence demonstrating that fundamental changes have taken place in the character of advanced industrial states over the last two decades or so. The political faces of these changes are familiar: Public confidence in traditional governmental and non-governmental institutions has eroded (Dalton, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1999 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0020-7152
eISSN
1745-2554
DOI
10.1163/156854299X00290
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Abstract

Orientations Towards Authority and Congruency Theory The Cross-national, Cross-time Evidence NEIL NEVITTE* and MEBS KANJI** ABSTRACT This paper employs the 1981 and 1990 World Values Surveys to demonstrate that publics in advanced industrial states have become less deferential both in general, as well as in the polity, the family, and the workplace. In addition, this analysis also provides broad-gauged prime facie support for the claim (Eckstein, 1966, 1969, 1975, 1992; Pateman, 1970; Kohn, 1969; Greenberg et al., 1995) that authority orientations across different domains are generalizable: attitudes toward authority in the polity, the family, and the workplace do indeed appear to be inter-connected. Furthermore, even under the most rigorous testing conditions, when multiple authority orientations are pitted against each other, and when various other prominent explanations are introduced, orientations toward authority in one domain turn out to be useful (i.e., statistically significant) estimates of authority orientations in another. 1. Introduction THERE IS NOW a vast body of evidence demonstrating that fundamental changes have taken place in the character of advanced industrial states over the last two decades or so. The political faces of these changes are familiar: Public confidence in traditional governmental and non-governmental institutions has eroded (Dalton,

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1999

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