Seminarium POLPAN

In November, two POLPAN seminars are planned:

November 18, 14:30, Rom 161
Hyungsoo Woo
What explains changes in political authoritarian attitudes: Poland, 1998-2023?

The paper presents an over-time measurement model of political authoritarianism and explains changes in this attitude using individual-level variables. It is based on six waves of the POLPAN study. The measurement model provides comparable scores from 1998 to 2023, allowing for accounting for attitudinal change. The analysis of determinants of political authoritarianism focuses on separating within-person from between-person variability—a difficult methodological task. Substantive results will also be presented.

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November 25, 14:30, Room 154
Nataliia Pohorila and Yurii Taran
Religiosity, Authoritarianism, and Nationalistic Views in Poland

This paper examines the effect of personal religiosity on nationalist attitudes in 2023. We hypothesize that this effect is positive and is amplified by the authoritarian tendencies of religious individuals, as the theory of religious nationalism suggests. Our hypothesis was tested using the 2018 and 2023 waves of POLPAN. The analysis provides weak but significant confirmation of our hypothesis. Both religiosity and authoritarianism influence nationalist attitudes; authoritarianism has a more substantial effect than religiosity.

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