["\n\nObjective\nTo explore the links between authoritarian personality traits and welfare chauvinism by controlling for a host of alternative explanations while also investigating whether these links are additive or interacting with other triggering variables.\n\n\nMethod\nUsing the online survey platform Qualtrics, a stratified sample of 1,010 respondents in Germany was recruited in January 2019. Authoritarian personality is operationalized by applying the fourfold child‐rearing scale pioneered by Feldman and Stenner.\n\n\nResults\nFindings indicate that authoritarianism has an independent, additive effect on welfare chauvinism, but cultural and economic threats do not systematically mediate the effect of authoritarianism on welfare chauvinism.\n\n\nConclusion\nSubmissive authoritarianism is significantly linked to a desire to disentitle immigrants from using welfare benefits.\n\n", "Social Science Quarterly, Volume 101, Issue 4, Page 1255-1270, July 2020. "]