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Authoritarianism

Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law. Authoritarian regimes may be either autocratic or oligarchic and may be based upon the rule of a party…

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related to Bibliography · 55
Authoritarianism → Academic Bookstore, Alberto, Amandae, An Authoritarian Regime, Authoritarian Politics, Authoritarian Regimes, Basic Books, Cambridge University Press, CBO9780511781353, CBO9781107252523, Chicago Press, Cleavages, Cold War, Competitive Authoritarianism, Constitutions, Democracy, Development, Eric, Established One-party Systems, Ginsburg
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Authoritarianism → According, Amartya Sen, By, Dani Rodrik, Daron Acemoglu, GDP, Halperin, In, James, Joseph, Michael, Morton, One, Pascual Restrepo, Robinson, Seymour Martin Lipset, Siegle, States, Studies, Suresh Naidu
related to Libertarian authoritarianism · 21
Authoritarianism → Amlinger, Argentinian Presidency, Carolin Amlinger, COVID-19, Elon Musk, Individuals, Jacobin, Javier Milei, Libertarian Authoritarianism, Multiple, Nachtwey, New Statesman, Offended Freedom, Oliver Nachtwey, Other, Peter Thiel, QAnon, The Rise, They, Wendy Brown
related to Authoritarianism and totalitarianism · 16
Authoritarianism → According, Building, Catholic Church, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Falange, Francoist Spain, Juan Linz, Linz, Paul, Sondrol, Spain's, Totalitarianism, University, Unlike, Yale
related to Similar terms · 8
Authoritarianism → An, An Autocracy, Authoritarian, Fascist, Fascisti, Totalitarian, Unlike, WWII Italy
related to Typologies · 8
Authoritarianism → According, Dan Slater, French Revolution, He, Juan José Linz, Michigan, University, Yale
related to Contemporary · 6
Authoritarianism → Freedom House's Freedom, States, The Economist Democracy Index, There, V-Dem Democracy Indices, World
related to Characteristics · 4
Authoritarianism → Adam Przeworski, It, Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart
related to External links · 3
Authoritarianism → Quotations, Wikiquote, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
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Authoritarianism → defining characteristic of fascism, political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality

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authoritarian regimes political democratic states regime democracy power democracies may economic state elections also government rule opposition institutions control totalitarian

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Authoritarianismis apolitical system characterized by the rejection of political plurality0.90text
Authoritarianismis adefining characteristic of fascism0.90text
freedom of religioninstance ofauthoritarian states include countries that lack human rights0.80text
or countries in which the governmentinstance ofauthoritarian states include countries that lack human rights0.80text
the opposition do not alternate in power at least once following free electionsinstance ofauthoritarian states include countries that lack human rights0.80text
political partiesinstance ofAuthoritarian states might contain nominally democratic institutions0.80text
legislaturesinstance ofAuthoritarian states might contain nominally democratic institutions0.80text
elections which are managed to entrench authoritarian ruleinstance ofAuthoritarian states might contain nominally democratic institutions0.80text
can feature fraudulentinstance ofAuthoritarian states might contain nominally democratic institutions0.80text
non-competitive elections.Since 1946instance ofAuthoritarian states might contain nominally democratic institutions0.80text
the share of authoritarian states in the international political system increased until the mid-1970s but declined from then until 2000instance ofAuthoritarian states might contain nominally democratic institutions0.80text
Seymour Lipsetinstance ofSocioeconomic factorsScholars0.80text

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