@article{161126,
  author = {Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua A. Tucker},
  title = {Communist Legacies and Left-Authoritarianism},
  abstract = { Communist regimes were avowedly leftist authoritarian regimes, a relative rarity among autocracies. The growing literature on regime legacies would lead us to expect that postcommunist citizens would be more likely to exhibit {\textquotedblleft}left-authoritarian{\textquotedblright} attitudes than their counterparts elsewhere. Finding that this is the case, we rely on 157 surveys from 88 countries to test if a living through Communism legacy model can account for this surplus of left-authoritarian attitudes. Employing both aggregate and micro-level analyses, we find strong support for the predictions of this model. Moving beyond previous legacy studies, we then test a variety of hypothesized mechanisms to explain how exposure to communist rule could have led to the regime congruent left-authoritarian attitudes. Of the mechanisms tested, greater state penetration of society is associated with a strong socialization effect and religious attendance{\textemdash}and in particular attending Catholic religious services{\textemdash}is associated with weaker socialization effects. },
  year = {2020},
  journal = {Comparative Political Studies},
  volume = {53},
  pages = {1861-1889},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414019879954},
  doi = {10.1177/0010414019879954},
  language = {eng},
}