Disposition towards authority

Early in the development of the political culture literature, Inkeles ( in National Character and Modern Political Systems) portrayed democratic political culture as the inverse of the authoritarian personality syndrome that makes for political extremism. Inkeles identifies the components of this syndrome as including faith in powerful leaders; hatred of outsiders and deviates; a sense of powerlesness and ineffectiveness; extreme cynicism; suspicion and distrust of others; and dogmatism. To list the components of the inverse syndrome is to comprehend much of what embodies a democratic culture...

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...flexibility, trust, efficacy, opennes to new ideas and experiences, tolerance of differences and ambiguities, acceptance of others, and an attitude toward authority that is neither ¨blindly submissive¨ nor ¨hostile rejecting¨ but rather responsible...even though always watchful¨.

Diamond, Larry (editor). Political Culture & Democracy in Developing Countries. Lynne Rienner. Boulder. 1004. p. 12.