His authoritarian style and personality traits, could, however, wreak havoc on democratic institutions as well as the economy and further marginalize non-whites.
The P.R.I. was authoritarian and corrupt, but these traits offered certain advantages when dealing with the drug trade.
She has exposed the artlessness with which many in the West reduced a complex personality into a Rapunzel of the East, emptied of her more illiberal traits, such as an authoritarian leadership style, and some potentially unsavory views on Muslims.
Some people, the theory went, were more inclined to discriminate than others; prejudice was linked to traits such as authoritarianism, associated with a highly subservient attitude towards authority figures and an authoritarian attitude towards lower-status minorities.
But the development also exemplifies traits — the reckless embrace of the fashionable and the global, the authoritarian planning heedless of human cost — that are elsewhere denaturing, even destroying, the fabric of the city.
Especially interesting were empirical investigations into the "authoritarian" and "democratic" personalities, which provided a microsociology of democratic and antidemocratic character traits (Adorno et al 1953).
Roberts is a highly intelligent man, which is one reason why it's a mistake to reduce discussions of authoritarian personality to assertions about the stupidity of those who evince those personality traits.
The influence of personality has been studied by correlating measured attitudes with individual personality traits and by clinical studies of cognitive and motivational processes; so-called authoritarian behaviour, for example, has been found to be deeply embedded in the personality of the individual.
In the 1940s many investigators focused on intensive studies of individual traits and of combinations of traits that seemed to define personality types, such as the "authoritarian personality".
