?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Attitudes+to+legal+authority+in+adulthood%3A+inter-individual+differences+and+intra-individual+stability&rft.creator=Melis%2C+G&rft.creator=Shryane%2C+N&rft.creator=Elliot%2C+M&rft.creator=Pampaka%2C+M&rft.description=This+paper+considers+whether+and+how+attitudes+towards+legal+authority+change+over+time+in+the+British+adult+population.+We+apply+latent+trajectory+and+autoregressive+models+using+the+1996%2C+2000+and+2012+sweeps+of+the+British+Cohort+Study+of+1970%3B+after+controlling+for+gender%2C+education%2C+occupational+social+class%2C+interest+in+politics+and+religion%2C+we+found+that+from+the+age+of+26+to+the+age+of+42%2C+the+cohort+becomes+more+liberal+regarding+obedience+to+the+law%2C+the+death+penalty+and+stiffer+sentencing%2C+but+more+authoritarian+regarding+censorship%3B+moreover%2C+individual-level+characteristics+are+associated+with+inter-individual+differences+over+time%2C+in+particular%3A+as+occupational+social+class+and+level+of+education+increase%2C+attitudes+tend+to+be+more+liberal%3B+interest+in+politics+is+positively+associated+with+less+authoritarian+attitudes%3B+those+who+define+themselves+as+non-religious+tend+to+be+more+liberal%3B+the+effect+of+gender+varies+by+attitude%3A+females+are+more+authoritarian+towards+censorship%2C+but+more+liberal+regarding+capital+punishment+and+stiffer+sentencing.+The+analyses+reported+here+give+support+at+the+micro+level+to+the+hypotheses+of+relative+consistency+and+stability+of+attitudes+to+legal+authority%2C+as+well+providing+evidence+for+important+social+cleavages.&rft.subject=Attitude+change%2C+legal+authority%2C+authoritarianism%2C+longitudinal+analysis%2C+cohort+analysis&rft.publisher=Cathie+Marsh+Institute+for+Social+Research%2C+University+of+Manchester&rft.date=2018-07&rft.type=Working+%2F+discussion+paper&rft.language=eng&rft.source=++++(CMI+Working+Paper++2018-06).+Cathie+Marsh+Institute+for+Social+Research%2C+University+of+Manchester%3A+Manchester%2C+UK.+(2018)+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10052951%2F1%2FAttitudes%2520to%2520legal%2520authority%2520from%2520%25201996%2520to%25202012_CMIST%2520WP_Final%2520July%25202018_v2.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10052951%2F&rft.rights=open