Voting for Nostalgia?: Authoritarian Nostalgia and Political Behavior in East Asia

• In Event: Authoritarian Legacies and Political Behavior

Brief Overview

Why do people support political parties that frequently reference back or are linked to a former dictator? I argue that authoritarian nostalgia provides a foundation for social identity and partisanship in many post-authoritarian democracies.

Author

• Sanghoon Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign