The authoritarian orientation in liberal democracies: Labor market and workplace authoritarianism

Authoritarianism is of growing interest to liberal democracies despite being a traditional concept.To be sure, many dictatorial societies are characterized by authoritarian features, not least by those of their leaders.The concept of authoritarianism, however, does not confine its scope to those societies but has also been applied to analyses of the West, and discussion at the latter level is indeed much more important for us in self-critical terms.In addition, issues involving the political pathology have not been discussed sufficiently at the level of everyday life in liberal democracies.It appears that some pivotal aspects of authoritarianism have long been overlooked and even underappreciated.In fact, while scholars have spotlighted the concept in relation to political structures chiefly in the Second