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

The Authoritarian Temptation

The Age of Authoritarian Democracy

A. The demise of an authoritarian regime

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Lisa has a very difficult time with authoritarian figures.

So why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?

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However, it is de facto superseded by Dheere's authoritarian leadership style.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

But, while a widespread consensus held that communism was nothing but a dead end, China s economic success, and the authoritarian backlash in Russia following Boris Yeltsin s departure from the Kremlin a decade ago, prompted a more pessimistic analysis. Theories of democratic rollback and of a resurgence of authoritarian great powers surfaced to unveil the potential of systems that combined nationalism and state led growth yielding capitalism.

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

In that sense, economic success in China or India may be those states undoing, as middle class political aspirations render current arrangements dysfunctional. Conversely, we may find ourselves in a world whose eastern half is organized into strong authoritarian state structures, with the West embracing post state models of association.

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.

Moldova s reemergence from authoritarian rule after eight years is the result of elections and parliamentary procedures. This makes Moldova the only post Soviet state (aside from the Baltic countries) with an uninterrupted cycle of transfers of power through elections since 1991.

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.

Now these are things about general culture, but I'm also very much interested in political culture and whether liberty and democracy is appreciated, or whether there's an authoritarian political culture in which the state is supposed to impose things on the citizens.

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.

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.

But, since the 2008 financial crisis, China s confidence in its authoritarian development model has grown stronger. Its leaders now increasingly appear to believe that a new Beijing Consensus of mercantilism and state intervention has replaced the old Washington Consensus of free trade and deregulation.

TRIPOLI With the creation of a new government, Libya s leaders should finally be able to focus on organizing the transition from the authoritarian state that they inherited to the more pluralistic one they envisage. But are they really able and willing to achieve that goal?

Japan sde facto one party state is more democratic than authoritarian, owing not only to its law based framework, but also to its culture of accountability. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) elite always reacts to the popular mood and concerns often stealing its opponents ideas.

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.

With the Arab Spring an increasingly distant memory, the instability along this arc is deepening. Indeed, of the three initial Arab Spring countries, Libya has become a failed state, Egypt has returned to authoritarian rule, and Tunisia is being economically and politically destabilized by terrorist attacks.

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.

266. With Romania apos s history of authoritarian rule, which has severely impeded the enjoyment of many human rights in the State party, it is understood that the establishment and practical application of a new democratic and non discriminatory political, economic and social framework is a difficult and time consuming process.

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.