TY - JOUR A1 - Smolik, Josef T1 - The Influence of the Concept of Authoritarian Personality Today JF - Středoevropské politické studie Ročník / Central European Political Studies Review, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2008), pp.34-48. [Online ISSN 1212-7817] [journals.muni.cz/cepsr/article/view/4408/3448] N2 - This article will briefly introduce the concept of authoritarian personality as its team of authors T. W. Adorno, E. Frenkel-Brunswik, D. J. Levinson and R. N. Sanford, presented it, describe the contemporary influence of the concept and focus on possible implications for the study of non-democratic regimes. The reader will also learn about findings of political psychology and reflections about the concept of authoritarianism, including the approaches of S. Freud, E. Fromm, A. Maslow and others. The following text is based on the theoretical conclusions of political psychology, which by applying its scholarly perspective can uncover some contexts of the study of non-democratic regimes. Y1 - 2008 ER -