During the POLPAN Seminar on November 18th, 2025, Dr Hyungsoo Woo (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences) presented a paper entitled ‘What explains changes in political authoritarian attitudes: Poland, 1998-2023?.’
Abstract of the presentation:
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.