Research into authoritarian leadership helps clarify its subjective mechanisms. The nature of authoritarianism as a political phenomenon is quite complex and cannot be unequivocally interpreted. Keywords: Frankfurt School of Leadership, authoritarianism, fascism, 'Escape from Freedom' authoritarian character, authoritarian personality, 'one-dimensional' society, 'one-dimensional' man, 'one-dimensional' consciousness.

Such a personality is formed in an unhealthy social environment that generates mass frustrations, neuroses and the desire of man to flee from all this into the sphere of domination and submission. They have identified a type of personality that predisposes to authoritarianism and seeks power.

Notable contributions to the development of authoritarian leadership were made by Wilhelm Reich, Alfred Maslow, scholars from the Frankfurt School Erich Fromm, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse. The article aim is to understand the nature of authoritarian leadership. Kuppayeva Botagoz, Associate professor, Candidate of Political Science, Kazakh National Agrarian University Almaty, Kazakhstan E-mail: ABOUT THE NATURE OF AUTHORITARISM AS A POLITICAL PHENOMENONĪbstract.

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