TY  - GEN
TI  - Materialist and Post-Materialist Concerns and the Wish for a Strong Leader in 27 Countries
AU  - Lima, Marcus E. O
AU  - de Franca, Dalila X
AU  - Jetten, Jolanda
AU  - Pereira, Cicero R
AU  - Wohl, Michael J. A
AU  - Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga
AU  - Hong, Ying-yi
AU  - Torres, Ana Raquel
AU  - Costa-Lopes, Rui
AU  - Ariyanto, Amarina
AU  - Autin, Frederique
AU  - Ayub, Nadia
AU  - Badea, Constantina
AU  - Besta, Tomasz
AU  - Butera, Fabrizio
AU  - Fantini-Hauwel, Carole
AU  - Finchilescu, Gillian
AU  - Gaertner, Lowell
AU  - Gollwitzer, Mario
AU  - Gómez, Ángel
AU  - Gonzalez, Roberto
AU  - Høj Jensen, Dorthe
AU  - Karasawa, Minoru
AU  - Kessler, Thomas
AU  - Klein, Olivier
AU  - Megevand, Laura
AU  - Morton, Thomas
AU  - Paladino, Maria Paola
AU  - Polya, Tibor
AU  - Renvik, Tuuli Anna
AU  - Ruza, Aleksejs
AU  - Shahrazad, Wan
AU  - Shama, Sushama
AU  - Smith, Heather J
AU  - Teymoori, Ali
AU  - van der Bles, Anne Marthe
PY  - 2021
LA  - eng
KW  - materialist concerns
KW  - post-materialist concerns
KW  - leadership
KW  - democracy
KW  - populism
KW  - POSTMATERIALISM
KW  - FUTURE
KW  - VALUES
KW  - 5144 Social psychology
AB  - There is evidence that democracies are under threat around the world while the quest for strong leaders is increasing. Although the causes of these developments are complex and multifaceted, here we focus on one factor: the extent to which citizens express materialist and post-materialist concerns. We explore whether objective higher levels of democracy are differentially associated with materialist and post-materialist concerns and, in turn, whether this is related to the wish for a strong leader. Testing this hypothesis across 27 countries (N = 5,741) demonstrated a direct negative effect of democracies' development on the wish for a strong leader. Further, multi-level mediation analysis showed that the relation between the Democracy Index and the wish for a strong leader was mediated by materialist concerns. This pattern of results suggests that lower levels of democracy are associated with enhanced concerns about basic needs and this is linked to greater support for strong leaders. ; Peer reviewed
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/334679
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/base-ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/334679
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -