The Strongman Appeal: When Citizens Choose Security over Democracy

• In Event: Illiberal Attitudes and Threats to Democracy

Brief Overview

In this research, we study, through a survey experiment in the UK and Spain, leaders' push for antidemocratic measures framed as the solution to a crisis: the strongman appeal. We find affective distance predicts support for this appeal.

Authors

• Noam Titelman, Sciences Po

• Javier Sajuria, Queen Mary University of London

• Lisa Zanotti, Diego Portales University