The Authoritarian Temptation

The Age of Authoritarian Democracy

A. The demise of an authoritarian regime

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However, it is de facto superseded by Dheere's authoritarian leadership style.

Statically, China is a one party system, authoritarian there's no question about it.

Dynamically, it has changed over time to become less authoritarian and more democratic.

Now that is pretty authoritarian, and that's something I'm very much critical of.

Ms. Chung gave examples of companies working with authoritarian regimes such as Myanmar.

For each of these successful authoritarian governments in East Asia, there's a matched failure.

Poverty, extreme inequality and public corruption have fuelled authoritarian rule and violence for decades.

The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction.

Some of these economies were ruled by authoritarian governments in the 60s and 70s and 1980s.

For decades, we have lived under authoritarian regimes in the Arab world, in the Middle East.

But a look at the record shows that democracies possess more effective weapons to fight terror than do authoritarian regimes. Indeed, it is when democracies abandon their ethics and fail to resist the authoritarian temptation that they become weaker.

In his first term, Putin appeared to be an authoritarian reformer, undertaking substantial market reforms, such as introducing a 13 flat income tax. But in his second term, Putin was simply authoritarian, undertaking no economic or social reforms worth mentioning.

Or they're responding to censorship requests by authoritarian regimes that do not reflect consent of the governed.

And this actually fits with another interesting theory about what's happening in authoritarian states and in their cyberspace.

I'll just give you a very short list of reasons why authoritarian deliberation may actually help the dictators.

Western capitalism s model of a society based on near universal affluence and liberal democracy looks increasingly ineffective compared to the competition. Authoritarian countries middle classes may push their leaders toward greater democracy, as in Russia, but Western democracies will also likely become more authoritarian.

Third, the working group could consider situations where authoritarian States facilitated or accelerated human rights violations committed by corporations.

71. The difficult relations between State and society in Africa owe much to the authoritarian legacy of colonial governance.

And it is no secret that many Islamic movements in the Middle East tend to be authoritarian, and some of the so called Islamic regimes such as Saudi Arabia, Iran and the worst case was the Taliban in Afghanistan they are pretty authoritarian. No doubt about that.

Most governments followed the dictate of the authoritarian leaders to stay away from these different groups, because they were terrorists.

So that's why I've always been fascinated with how technology could actually reshape and open up authoritarian societies like ours.

According to an alarming poll published recently by the leading Italian newspaper La Repubblica, more than 22 of Italians find no great differences between an authoritarian and a democratic system of government. Another 10 believe that an authoritarian regime is better and more effective than a democratic political system.

These forces are present but are still quite weak and in constant danger nationalistic and authoritarian tendencies are still too strong.

Daniel Libeskind Look. We have to cure ourselves of the notion that we are authoritarian, that we can determine everything that happens.

Examples of this corruption inducing situation are found in authoritarian regimes where powers are concentrated in the hands of very few persons.

And finally, the purpose of any authoritarian deliberation efforts is usually to increase the legitimacy of the regimes, both at home and abroad.

But, though Chinese government always was authoritarian, it was not always as corrupt as it is now. Nor were China s politics always as lawless.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin s corrupt and authoritarian rule demonstrates every day, that transition is far from finished. Yet there is some good news.

After decades of authoritarian rule, citizens, frustrated with discredited institutions and paralyzed political parties, have begun to employ social media to organize civil resistance.

Violence and conflict were often rooted in inequality, authoritarian regimes, poverty and exclusion, while inequality was a contributing factor in social disintegration and violence.

Mohamed Dheere is the self declared Governor of Middle Shabelle and Chairman of the city of Jowhar and exercises authoritarian control of his local administration.

But when I saw that, I said, Maybe the problem is just an authoritarian culture in the region, and some Muslims have been influenced by that.

They may have become slower, but the activists could still access it and actually argue that having access to them is actually great for many authoritarian states.

Because even what has been happening up 'til now with the Spinternet and authoritarian deliberation, there is a great chance that those voices will not be heard.

And the people thought for themselves, Maybe we should live with this kind of authoritarian situation that we find ourselves in, instead of having the second scenario.

The flu also revealed some of Mexico s other fundamental flaws. The political system has become a peculiar hybrid of authoritarian remnants and newly established mechanisms for transparency.

Mr. Cumberbatch Miguén (Cuba) said that the 2005 Summit Outcome had been manipulated and adopted by a small group of countries imposing authoritarian measures on the majority.

This is what political scientists call authoritarian deliberation, and it happens when governments are actually reaching out to their critics and letting them engage with each other online.