• Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of democracy and political plurality. (wikipedia.org)
  • States that have a blurred boundary between democracy and authoritarianism have some times been characterized as "hybrid democracies", "hybrid regimes" or "competitive authoritarian" states. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is the conclusion of the Review of the third year of the government of Iván Duque Márquez called "Lessons of the Apprentice - Authoritarianism and Inequality" by the Plataforma Colombiana de Derechos Humanos, Democracia y Desarrollo (Colombian Platform for Human Rights, Democracy and Development), the Colombia Europe United States Coordination and the Alianza de Organizaciones Sociales y Afines (Alliance of Social and Allied Organizations). (ddhhcolombia.org.co)
  • Sanders stated during his Monday remarks that he and his family "know the insidious way authoritarianism destroys democracy, decency and humanity. (newsweek.com)
  • At the same time, however, stealth authoritarianism is less insidious than its traditional, more repressive alternative and can, under some circumstances, produce the conditions by which democracy can expand and mature, in a two-steps-forward-one-step-backward dynamic. (ssrn.com)
  • Last May, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was criticized in his nation's parliament for not attending ceremonies marking the 1980 Gwangju uprising, an event considered a major turning point in the Republic of Korea's (R.O.K.) transition from authoritarianism to democracy. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Panelists will examine transnational ties between the Middle East, East Africa, Europe and the U.K. We also interrogate the role of faith-based Shi'i non-state providers (NSPs) and sub- and supranational aid-economy actors in the context of postwar reconstruction and urban revitalization, and examine hybrid regimes of rule in the Islamic Republic of Iran, where authoritarianism and electoral democracy are mutually reinforcing. (lu.se)
  • As Tunisia's president Kais Saied takes the country down the path of authoritarianism , opponents faced a quandary about what to do during the July 25 referendum, on a constitution that will hand Saied significant power. (wagingnonviolence.org)
  • And in the midst of all of this, we have a president who is not only incapable of addressing these crises but is leading us down the path of authoritarianism. (newsweek.com)
  • Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders warned during his remarks during Monday night's Democratic National Convention (DNC) that President Donald Trump was leading the U.S. towards authoritarianism. (newsweek.com)
  • In a statement sent to Newsweek on Monday, Trump 2020 National Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said, "Perhaps it was just an oversight, but the first night of the Democrat convention left out the fact that Joe Biden would raise taxes on more than 80 percent of Americans by at least $4 trillion. (newsweek.com)
  • In January 2023, Kyrgyz police forced a group of Russian protesters to leave the square where they wanted to hold an anti-war rally. (eurasiareview.com)
  • In October 2023, just a few days after Vladimir Putin paid a visit to Kyrgyzstan, Russian left-wing activist Lev Skoryakin " vanished " from his Bishkek apartment. (eurasiareview.com)
  • COVID-19 has absorbed the world's energies and isolated countries from one another, which may have accelerated the creep of authoritarianism and extremism across the globe, some researchers and activists believe. (globalnews.ca)
  • After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, hundreds of thousands of Russians left their country, fearing persecution and mass mobilization. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Conversely, in order to trumpet their own democratic credentials, progressives in democratic South Korea have emphasized their roots in uprising and resistance to authoritarianism. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Perish the thought that the left or liberals could ever espouse the basic civil liberty of free speech. (newenglishreview.org)
  • In a pre-conference statement, she assailed authoritarianism as "the most dangerous crisis confronting all of us today. (kdvr.com)
  • You were there during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and you left a few days before the recent lockdown was put in place. (newpol.org)
  • Thousands of Serbs marched through the streets of Belgrade on the weekend, the latest in a series of protests against what opposition leaders say is the increasing authoritarianism of President Aleksandar Vucic. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • The authoritarianism and homophobia of the Russian government have increased in recent years, arousing numerous protests. (ft-ci.org)
  • During the 1970 Polish protests, striking shipyard workers were shot when leaving the Lenin Shipyard. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Cultural critic Henry Giroux explains how a new strain of authoritarianism has seized US politics and culture. (truthout.org)
  • Cultural critic Henry Giroux explains how a new strain of authoritarianism has seized American politics and culture, injecting and celebrating violence and militarism into our media and economy, creating disposable scapegoats of the marginalized, and ultimately devaluing the cornerstones of democratic thought - reason, solidarity and equality. (truthout.org)
  • Drawing on rational-choice theory, the Article explains the expansion of stealth authoritarianism across different case studies. (ssrn.com)
  • And I would suggest that if we want to understand why, beyond examining the factors Harvey lays out, we have to understand the mechanisms through which evangelical authoritarianism operates. (religiondispatches.org)
  • The Article fills a void in the literature, which has left undertheorized the authoritarian learning that occurred after the Cold War and the emerging reliance on legal, particularly sub-constitutional, mechanisms to perpetuate political power. (ssrn.com)
  • Left-wingers have talked openly, and sometimes gleefully, about how richly we, their conservative enemies, deserve slow and painful deaths - and, when in a feisty mood, how they would quite like to be the agents of our demise. (townhall.com)
  • There have been significant links between environmentalism and Right-wing politics for more than a century," Staudenmaier writes in his new book Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics Between Left and Right. (social-ecology.org)
  • It is not that the traditional left-right dimension in American politics is unimportant. (washingtonmonthly.com)
  • Consider the apocalyptic, hectoring tone of so much political analysis on the Left these days. (townhall.com)
  • The political scientist Juan Linz, in an influential 1964 work, An Authoritarian Regime: Spain, defined authoritarianism as possessing four qualities: Limited political pluralism, which is achieved with constraints on the legislature, political parties and interest groups. (wikipedia.org)
  • Authoritarianism is characterized by highly concentrated and centralized government power maintained by political repression and the exclusion of potential or supposed challengers by armed force. (wikipedia.org)
  • Authoritarianism also tends to embrace the informal and unregulated exercise of political power, a leadership that is "self-appointed and even if elected cannot be displaced by citizens' free choice among competitors", the arbitrary deprivation of civil liberties and little tolerance for meaningful opposition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Authoritarianism is marked by "indefinite political tenure" of the ruler or ruling party (often in a one-party state) or other authority. (wikipedia.org)
  • What influence has the period of authoritarianism had on the way political groups organize themselves today? (wilsoncenter.org)
  • And yes, today I plan to take a break from decrypting the political madness of the far-right and instead point my j'accuse finger to the left. (blogspot.com)
  • This time around, left-wing populist figures dominated the region's political landscapes, combining populist ideas with so-called 21st-century socialism. (ciaonet.org)
  • They're not going to be leaving, go to another country, make the product, sell it into the United States, and all we end up with is no taxes and total unemployment. (reason.com)
  • The radical right repeatedly appropriates dystopian language and uses Orwellian metaphors to make false claims of left-wing authoritarianism. (rantt.com)
  • In addition, stealth authoritarianism can ultimately make authoritarian governance more durable by concealing anti-democratic practices under the mask of law. (ssrn.com)
  • Since a majority of my fellow citizens do seem to swallow the abysmal notion of "left-vs'right" - doesn't that make me a masses-contemptuous snob? (blogspot.com)
  • I have since gradually left the field of history of ideas and today mainly work on different issues in contemporary Chinese society. (lu.se)
  • It would be similar to the NRC that has already been rolled out in the northeastern state of Assam, where nearly two million people were essentially left stateless. (newpol.org)
  • He was involved in several high-profile terrorist attacks in Russia, including the bombing of the Moscow Metro in 2004, which left 41 people dead and some 120 others injured. (rt.com)
  • It makes people who only have a little authoritarianism share the preferences of those who have a lot. (washingtonmonthly.com)
  • As you leave campus for the last time, many of you already deeply in debt and with a lifetime of payments to look forward to, you head into a world that's anything but sunny. (juancole.com)
  • Its director Jean-Claude Juncker has uttered other threats to any European country that could consider leaving the EU, suggesting potential economic pressures that could affect a country's economy. (newenglishreview.org)
  • The dark side of this is the recusal of liberals from the battleground, leaving the field entirely to the radical right, neo-Nazis and pseudo-populist nationalists and ethnic isolationists. (newenglishreview.org)
  • While the era of radical left-wing populists came to an end, new breeds of populists appeared one after another and were elected to office in the 2010s. (ciaonet.org)
  • This Article offers a comprehensive cross-regional account of that phenomenon, which I term stealth authoritarianism. (ssrn.com)
  • Skoryakin was wanted by the Russian authorities for participating in a rally against the Federal Security Service organized by the civil movement Left Block. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Against the authoritarianism and homophobia of the Russian government! (ft-ci.org)
  • I moved back to San Salvador, the country's capital, in 1997, long after the foreign correspondents had left the region. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • However, the mutli-lateral lender had incorporated certain conditions that "left space for continued large-scale gas investments", according to an analysis released on Friday by Fossil Free ADB , a 24-member coalition comprised of civil society groups and peoples' movements from Asia, the United States and Europe, campaigning for the ADB to stop financing fossil fuels. (eco-business.com)
  • The analysis revealed discursive markers of authoritarianism and a disconnect between domestic and public spaces. (bvsalud.org)
  • It aims to unpack the many dimensions and paradoxes of networked authoritarianism and the impact of ICTs on Chinese society ( see research page here ). (lu.se)
  • Because we live in a results-driven world, at the moment it would appear that the exponents of authoritarianism are in the ascendant. (tuckmagazine.com)
  • At this moment, we have 48 hours left in our important fundraising campaign, and we still must raise $26,000. (truthout.org)
  • It ran contrary to the much-needed rule of law, and left the entire justice system contaminated. (dissentmagazine.org)
  • Groups of the far right are getting organized with the approval of the government and the police, while repression against the social movements and the left, by Putin, who treats these [far right] groups permissively, is increasing. (ft-ci.org)
  • By Chaia Heller: "The aim here is to address two problems emerging amidst the current war, challenging the left to present a principled response to both the dynamics of authoritarianism and rising anti-Jewish racism. (social-ecology.org)
  • The Left, and the entire Democratic establishment, go into panic mode. (townhall.com)
  • Then he suddenly left the hall and told hundreds of followers waiting outside that God had asked him to be patient. (dissentmagazine.org)