In our master thesis, we have studied the concept of authoritarian desire, which we have defined as the tendency towards authoritarian leadership or the emergence of a strong leader. We were interested in the reasons for the rise of authoritarian leaders, where we limited ourselves to socio-individual indicators, the historical example of which we drew from an analysis of the German Weimar Republic between 1918 and 1933 and the reasons for Hitler's rise. Through a theoretical and historical analysis of the period and the indicators of the rise, we further applied these to the 21st century and tried to determine to what extent such indicators could lead to a similar outcome today. For this purpose, we designed a questionnaire and, on the basis of a statistical analysis we showed, that a positive attitude towards economic inequality plays an important role in the aspiration for a strong, and above all radical strong leader. We have shown that the more pronounced the positive attitude towards economic inequality, the more pronounced is the tendency towards a radical strong leader who is also willing to violate existing democratic principles, practices and values in order to achieve his/her goals. At the same time, we also found that the higher the trust in the democratic system, the higher the age and level of education, the lower the tendency towards a radical strong leader.
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