Feelings of uncertainty and losing control bring a preference for “dominant” versus “prestige” leaders.
Political pundits, commentators and average citizens continue to have trouble accounting for the rise of populist authoritarian leaders across the globe. The common question batted around continues to be how leaders such as Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Rodrigo Duterte, Nicolás Maduro, Recep Erdogan could become the standard-bearers of democracy for countries like the US, Hungary, Philippines, Venezuela and Turkey.
This study uses the software techniques of Big Data to arrive at these findings. Its input is huge amounts of data - and its output are new insights. This is one of the major trends in software development - and one people should be aware of.
It does not consider the larger question - of why people are not interested in these findings, and, indeed - are not interested in Science itself.
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