Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno 4.3 Famous Leaders Ali Khamenei, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Vlad Dracula, Vladimir Putin 4.4 Modern 4.4.1 Early Modern NA 4.4.2 18th and 19th Century ...
Broadly, an authoritarian regime can be simplistically characterized as extreme centralization of power compounded with the limitation of civil liberties. Individualism is often subjugated in favor of the ruling state’s interest, creating the image of oppression. And there is often no constitutional acc...
What is an authoritarian government? Authoritarian government is a mode of rule in which some group has political authority by way of tradition. Members of that group can exercise power without dispute or opposition, provided they do so in relatively predictable (traditional) ways. What is an aut...
Authoritarian parents aren't nurturing or flexible, and they consider obedience as a sign of love. Communication is usually one-way; children are discouraged from expressing themselves, and talking back isn't an option. While boundaries are good, research shows that authoritarian parenting can have ...
doi:10.1177/0007650319898475Dorottya SallaiGerhard SchnyderSAGE PublicationsSage CA: Los Angeles, CA
This paper conceptualizes authoritarian populism in an institutional economics context. Examining the literature on populism in political science, it considers authoritarian populism a degraded form of democracy that holds elections in regular intervals as means of popular legitimation, but undermines plurali...
Succession is uncertain and can lead to instability. The autocratic leader's death sparked a power struggle within the regime. 8 Authoritarian Favouring or enforcing strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom The transition from an authoritarian to a democratic regime Autocratic ...
This is reflected in the fact that any type of state intervention in the economy is too easily qualified as a sign of “authoritarian capitalism,” which has led scholars to lump together countries as diverse as China, Singapore, and Norway under that heading. Rather than considering any type...
But what exactly is a fascist? And does the meaning of the word shift when viewed through a historical or political prism — especially so close to the end of a fraught presidential race? Here’s a closer look: What is fascism? An authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movem...
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