Abstract Manifestations of authoritarian legacies serve as an indicator of declining democratic legitimacy. However, authoritarian attitudinal legacies seem to persist in stable Asian democracies. To explain this puzzle, we argue that in a certain context, authoritarian attitudes can increase satisfaction with democracy. Furthermore, this relationship is more pronounced where cor- ruption is effectively controlled. In...

Abstract How do local natives react to a sudden influx of asylum seekers? Scholarship has consistently found that respondents exposed to a refugee crisis tend to exhibit an increase in anti-immigrant attitudes. However, because most such studies have been conducted in a Western setting, we have surprisingly little understanding of how natives would react in...