Further Evidence

A more general look at the ways that authoritarian attitudes exist amongst certain regions, states, nations, and areas.

This chart showcases how both left-wing and right-wing authoritarianism were both consistently significant of candidate support across both the 2008 and 2016 elections. The relative strength of each authoritarianism predicts the level of candidate support. Both sides show us that opposite sides of authoritarianism were predictive when electing a President. Understanding this concept throughout US elections shows us how people's authoritarian ideas are reflective with the outcome of elections- validating the variable of authoritarianism. Withdrawing to one's political group at times of threat can also be seen during the 2014 midterm elections during the Ebola outbreak.

This graph shows that whether rates of infection are correlated to more authoritarian dispositions throughout different areas of the US: regions, states, nations. This figure shows us that infectious disease prevalence positively related to all spacial levels after controlling for all socioeconomic variables and sample characteristics. This contributes evidence to the link between pathogens and authoritarianism. This article is under peer review.

This map further outlines the significant connection between threat of pathogens and the levels of authoritarian ideas across US states.

This figure shows us the correlation between conservative voting behaviors and threat of pathogens. Employing the vertical legal constrictions from Conway and McFarland, they measured the support for asymmetrical laws that effected minority groups more greatly. This overall correlates with the authoritarian ideas. Also, there is a sense of support for highly concentrated power structures enacting unequal laws. How voting behavior mediates the construct of pathogens.

During a public health crisis, individuals are more likely to withdraw to their own political groups, as outlined by the figures above, and are willing to reject some personal freedoms for safety.

The research tested parasite-stress hypothesis from Fincher and Thornhill on traditional scaled societies, the standard cross-cultural sample, and results revealed that extensiveness of pathogens predicted measures of authoritarian governments, even when statistically controlling for other threats to human welfare, such as famine, which also uniquely showed results of correlations for authoritarianism. Number 763 shows a significant correlation between the leader's power over the community with relation to pathogens. This further shows how our attitudes to certain governance is reflected by threat of infectious disease. Many variables are connected when highlighting authoritarianism throughout societies.