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May 20, 2024 · Authoritarian regimes are systems of government that have no established mechanism for the transfer of executive power and do not afford their citizens civil liberties or political rights. Power is concentrated in the hands of a single leader or a small elite, whose decisions are taken without regard for the will of the people.
- Natasha Lindstaedt
Aug 6, 2015 · According to Linz, authoritarian regimes are characterized by four defining traits: (1) limited, nonresponsible, political pluralism; (2) the absence of an elaborate and guiding ideology, having instead “distinctive mentalities”; (3) the absence of both intensive and extensive political mobilization; and (4) the exercise of power within ...
Jan 1, 2023 · The first type is traditional authoritarian regimes, which hold onto power through appeals to tradition, the cultivation of patron-client relationships with influential groups among the population, and the application of repression by groups with personal loyalty to the regime.
- Francis Grice
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Jul 28, 2015 · The evolution in academic approaches to authoritarianism can be classified variably, but overall three stages can be easily discerned. The first classic texts were concerned either with totalitarianism or with the social and historical origins of authoritarianism.
The study of the third wave, 1 embodied in the ‘transition literature’, has conceptualized the course of regime change in terms of three phases: regime breakdown, democratic transition, and democratic consolidation. Breakdown involves the deconstruction and possibly disintegration of the old regime, transition is the shift from old ...
- Graeme Gill
- 2000
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, and the rule of law.
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Sep 17, 2017 · 4 These statistics, and those that follow (unless otherwise noted), are based on data that classify the start and end dates, regime type, and entry and exit modes of all authoritarian regimes that held power between 1946 and 2014. See Barbara Geddes, Joseph Wright and Erica Frantz, ‘Autocratic Breakdown and Regime Transitions: A New Data Set ...
