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Revista Psicologia Política

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LIMA, Marcus Eugênio Oliveira; ALMEIDA, Juliana Nascimento de; FRANCA, Dalila Xavier de  and  SANTOS, Israel Jairo. The emergence of authoritarian leaders: meanings of right-left positions and sense of anomie. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.54, pp.449-466. ISSN 2175-1390.

We analyzed the relationship between the sense of anomie, the meanings of political positions and the desire for authoritarian leaders in two studies. In study 1 (n = 230; mean age = 20.99; 50.9% male), the results indicated that voting for Jair Bolsonaro was correlated with a desire for an authoritarian leader, less political anomie and a position further to the Right on the political spectrum. In study 2 (n = 181; mean age = 29.1; 59.1% male), we found that the Right is meant as "conservative-liberalism"; while the Left was associated with "Communism/Socialism", by the Right and Center participants, or with the defense of minorities, by the others. We conclude suggesting the need for greater scientific and political attention to the emergence of constitutional populisms and the existence of semantic similarity in the views of participant from the Right, Center and those without a political position in relation to the Left.

Keywords : Anomie; Meanings; Left; Right; Authoritarian Leader.

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