Italian Survey Data on Political Orientation, Threat, and Authoritarianism (2022-2023)

Two cross-sectional surveys collected in Italy in 2022 (N=1159) and 2023 (N=1668) by Conrad Baldner. The data examines the interaction between political orientation, perceived personal/physical/economic threats from COVID-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the desire for a more authoritarian leader. Pre-registered hypotheses, data, and R code are available via an OSF link.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between political orientation and desire for authoritarian leadership based on survey responses.
• Investigating how different threat types (personal, physical, economic) correlate with authoritarian attitudes.
• Comparing responses to two specific threatening events (COVID-19 pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine).
• Replicating or critiquing findings on left-wing authoritarianism (LWA) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA).

Strengths

• Includes two distinct samples from 2022 (1159 participants) and 2023 (1668 participants).
• Focuses on two major contemporary threat events: COVID-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
• Pre-registered hypotheses and analysis code are provided, supporting research transparency.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the underlying data tables is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is limited to Italian respondents in 2022-2023, which may affect generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Conrad Baldner via figshare.

Collection Method

Secondary analysis of two cross-sectional survey samples.

Time Range

2022-2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 07:41:50; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Italy