I have noticed that in the 2000s, more and more leaders with increasingly authoritarian mindsets have been elected to power. We as a society have started falling for the same “tricks” that we fell for around the time of the second world war when many dictators (like Hitler and Mussolini) were brought into power.
My goal is to make the people of the present aware of the attributes and actions of the authoritarian leaders of the past so that the people of the present can be more wary of people that want to gain political power and judge them in a more logical fashion (unlike in the past which led to the power of several dictators). I want to teach people these traits of authoritarian leaders with the help of several case studies and case study evaluations.
The project is extremely challenging since the project (a publish-length book about authoritarian leaders and why people “fell” for them—with the help of case studies) requires a high amount of research from a variety of sources and also requires critical thinking about how to use the resources I found and in what capacity. A lot of deliberation backed by research will go into deciding what case studies to use, which traits to accentuate and focus on, and what I want peoples’ takeaway from the book to be.
My goal is to make the people of the present aware of the attributes and actions of the authoritarian leaders of the past so that the people of the present can be more wary of people that want to gain political power and judge them in a more logical fashion (unlike in the past which led to the power of several dictators). I want to teach people these traits of authoritarian leaders with the help of several case studies and case study evaluations.
The project is extremely challenging since the project (a publish-length book about authoritarian leaders and why people “fell” for them—with the help of case studies) requires a high amount of research from a variety of sources and also requires critical thinking about how to use the resources I found and in what capacity. A lot of deliberation backed by research will go into deciding what case studies to use, which traits to accentuate and focus on, and what I want peoples’ takeaway from the book to be.