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3 days ago · 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
Dec 26, 2017 · the scholarly community. According to Linz, authoritarian regimes are characterized by. four defining traits: (1) limited, nonresponsible, political pluralism; (2) the absence of an. elaborate and ...
- Oliver Schlumberger
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 ...
Aug 30, 2023 · Understanding authoritarianism. August 30, 2023 | by Yale Jackson. An expert on authoritarian regimes and transitions to democracy, Jackson School professor Jennifer Gandhi is investigating what we understand about autocracies — how they manifest, how they gain support, and how they are being successfully overthrown.
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Broadly, an authoritarian regime is defined as a system in which the concentration of power lies within few hands. In its worst form, there is a single individual-centred
This article discusses authoritarian government, and argues that the literature on authoritarianism can be integrated into a unified framework that explains variance in economic performance across dictatorships.
Abstract. Many studies explain why trade policy varies between democracies and autocracies and among democracies themselves. In contrast, little is known about why trade policies vary across autocracies. This chapter considers four factors that might help explain such variation: economic structure, coalition size, time horizons, and the leader ...
