Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine determinants of political participation from the perspective of authoritarian attitudes and arguments. In The Authoritarian Personality, the authoritarian type of man is compared with the democratic type (anti-authoritarian type) and the democratic type of man is shown to have a tendency to talk with parents on certain issues in childhood. But, we find that both the fondness for argument which is important for democracy and the authoritarian attitude are affected by talking with one's father in childhood. To talk with one's father in childhood is important but ambivalent in terms of political participation.
