This is simultaneously a recipe for vaporware and for autocracy.
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In general, autocracy was more popular among the less educated.
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Mr Orban has gone further down the road to autocracy.
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"We will not allow autocracy back into Kenya," Odinga said.
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I really think that he thinks this is an autocracy.
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That is autocracy by the left and for the left.
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Separately, she and I discussed Brexit, Hillary Clinton, rising autocracy.
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This is one way an autocracy can come into being.
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Empire is the necessary and inevitable corollary of Putin's autocracy.
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An advantage of autocracy is that election cycles don't matter.
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European politicians are also uncomfortable with Turkey's descent into autocracy.
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When Pinochet's autocracy finally collapsed in 1990, trade opened up.
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Autocracy kept rearing its many heads, and people started getting killed.
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In Bertie's outburst, Wodehouse composed the quintessential English denunciation of autocracy.
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However, by year's end autocracy appeared no less troubled than democracy.
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Right now, he is fast leading the country back to autocracy.
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These brave Americans fought because they believed in democracy not autocracy.
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Trump's ideological sympathies lie with Putin's autocracy and its democratic veneer.
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Even Russia did for a time, until it started deviating towards autocracy.
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The result of that seems more likely to be dysfunction than autocracy.
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The anti-Trump resistance is bewitched by the specter of populist autocracy.
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THE gradual implosion of an autocracy can open up a dangerous void.
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So do everyone a favor: follow Masha Gessen's Autocracy: Rules for Survival.
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There are palpable fears that the United States is slipping into autocracy.
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At least a one-party autocracy can order things to get done.
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Now the shift from democracy to autocracy is slower and less obvious.
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Autocracy worldwide This cultural pattern is not limited to the Middle East.
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Instead, we're seeing polarization, alternative information universes and the rise of autocracy.
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"It is hardwired into autocracy to have underlings in competition," he said.
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Neither continent is poised for a real slide into autocracy — I think!
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Singapore, put crudely, is an illiberal democracy; Hong Kong a liberal autocracy.
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The point is that this is how the slide to autocracy happens.
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In Georgia, the Republican nominee takes a page out of Hungarian autocracy.
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But defining surveillance capitalism as a Big Brother autocracy that threatens human freedom?
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It both caricatures the autocracy of tsarism and anticipates Bolshevism's descent into tyranny.
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Bookshops are full of expert guides to spotting a country's slide into autocracy.
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It's a fitting reminder that autocracy and propaganda are not a modern phenomenon.
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Both are multiparty democracies with free market economies, unlike China's one-party autocracy.
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The problem is that he's trying to run it as a corrupt autocracy.
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In season 5, President Underwood is taking his first tentative steps into autocracy.
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In a secretive autocracy, it is impossible to know Mr Xi's real beliefs.
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At present, Donald Trump is an autocrat without an autocracy.... But systems change.
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In fact, his overcentralised autocracy has created pressures that could blow it apart.
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It is the end of a three-hundred-year autocracy, headquartered in France.
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There is a global rise of autocracy that ought to concern every American.
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But I can see how a major democracy could slide toward Hungarian autocracy.
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"There is no direct comparison" between Russian autocracy and American democracy, Khrushcheva acknowledges.
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Hungary has effectively become a one-party autocracy, ruled by an ethnonationalist ideology.
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In a region mired in autocracy, perhaps even that is something to cheer. ■
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"Only the course of autocracy provides him with personal comfort," Mr. Nevzorov said.
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They didn't seem to think we'd be moving to a Soviet-style autocracy.
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And Mr. Trump's imploding job approval might help slow the march to autocracy.
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The imprisonment of Bangladesh's most respected photojournalist illustrates the country's drift toward autocracy.
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But I'm always interested in the line between democracy and kleptocracy or autocracy.
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She wrote this indispensable guide to surviving autocracy in the days after the election.
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One Chinese speciality is cyber-security software that critics call "autocracy in a box".
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Some years ago Mr Erdogan began to reject all that for nationalism and autocracy.
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The rise of autocracy is in part a reaction to these big historical trends.
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But his corrosive rhetoric may make Brazilians more receptive to autocracy in the future.
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To do that, the duo created five models: engineering, star, commitment, bureaucracy, and autocracy.
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Brazil's economy is shrinking, China's debts are terrifying and Russia is a rusting autocracy.
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"We shall not become the facade of this criminal autocracy," Basha told the crowd.
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The tactics resemble those now common in European countries sliding toward autocracy, like Hungary.
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The tendency of political systems to slip into autocracy weighed heavily on their minds.
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And how are deeply polarized societies particularly susceptible to sliding from democracy to autocracy?
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President Nicolás Maduro's government went from autocracy to dictatorship in just a few weeks.
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It's a longtime NATO ally that's slipping into autocracy and moving closer to Russia.
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But the refusal to undergo scrutiny or allow for an appeal reeks of autocracy.
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EU leaders have often bitten their tongues rather than criticise the country's slide into autocracy.
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As Chinese autocracy shows, we cannot presume to offer the only models of economic development.
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And there is already evidence that Trump will stand idly by while autocracy reigns supreme.
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As the Trump administration finds its feet, a fear of autocracy is in the air.
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Iran he described as an autocracy, although the country does hold presidential and legislative elections.
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By tying Trump to Russia, Democrats are also tying him to autocracy, plutocracy, and thuggery.
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Such paranoia is dangerous, and not only because it could accelerate Turkey's drift into autocracy.
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China is an autocracy and fast becoming a dictatorship as Xi Jinping consolidates his power.
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Widespread arrests are still routine in a crackdown critics say demonstrates growing autocracy in Turkey.
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They harass the town and threaten to overthrow the ruling religious autocracy, called the Muljaddy.
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With Hungary drifting toward autocracy, its opera and ballet prepare to tour to New York.
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Some countries — like Venezuela, Poland and Hungary — have clearly moved toward autocracy in recent years.
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He is the editor of The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin's Russia.
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Take away that idea and we're just a giant version of a two-bit autocracy.
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The coalition has been alarmed by Venezuela's descent into autocracy and economic despair under Maduro.
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And like in Ecuador, the infrastructure for autocracy stays even as leaders come and go.
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Militant incompetence and autocracy are not in opposition: They are two sides of a coin.
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Both groups welcomed the message that Russians wanted to trade czarist autocracy for American freedom.
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Turkey is slipping into dictatorship, Venezuela remains mired in autocracy, as do countries in every continent.
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The threat Trump poses is of illiberal policies and, potentially, an illiberal political movement, not autocracy.
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In her Monday message, Tsai took aim at China's autocracy, in contrast with Taiwan's freewheeling ways.
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No one, in the media or elsewhere, is obsessed with Russia or with Vladimir Putin's autocracy.
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The lesson is clear: if you start a trade war, fight a democracy, not an autocracy.
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Instead, it often combines elements of capitalism and socialism — with a touch of autocracy and democracy.
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Having spent over two decades at the mutual fund giant, Fidelity, I was raised on autocracy.
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Venezuelans are living a humanitarian catastrophe, the result of government incompetence and an entrenched, unmovable autocracy.
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Hungary's odd autocracy, Israel's clash with Iran in Syria and the latest from the Winter Olympics.
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Our city finds itself in an uncomfortable place: on the front line between freedom and autocracy.
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So why, then, are we surrounded by articles worrying over America's descent into fascism or autocracy?
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Those workers' earnings are an important source of foreign revenue for Mr. Kim's cash-starved autocracy.
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Never before in history have meteorologist come so close to being a bellwether of creeping autocracy.
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The Middle East, in the long view, is better off without this brutal agent of autocracy.
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That he could build some kind of autocracy, some kind of crony capitalist Putin-esque system.
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It is not about an economic advantage, it is about a values urgency: autocracy versus democracy.
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Meanwhile, politically, the states have rejected western-style democracy: Russia's Vladimir Putin has doubled down on autocracy.
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Optimists may dismiss the two IPOs as isolated events, but there is a deeper trend towards autocracy.
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Many Egyptians who lived through Mubarak's rule view it as a period of autocracy and crony capitalism.
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Some spin-off debates have even asked whether Bitcoin is a democracy, or a developer-led autocracy.
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Britons, like Americans, fiercely protect their liberty, the genius of their constitution, their instinctive resistance to autocracy.
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"This President ... in that moment, dragged this country deep into the mud of autocracy and dictatorship," Rep.
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After a century of increasing corruption and violence, Romans hungry for stability welcomed the autocracy of Augustus.
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David Adelman, the foundation's chairman, said that the foundation was warning about any possible drift toward autocracy.
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Amid all that, David Frum's Atlantic cover story, "How to Build an Autocracy," is a chilling read.
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But two former White House officials turned pundits, David Axelrod and Robert Reich, warned of creeping autocracy.
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Their control will undoubtedly determine who has the power to secure a future of freedom from autocracy.
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Even as this diplomacy was unfolding, however, the sultan's own liberal autocracy was coming under increasing pressure.
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Unfortunately, the people of Puerto Rico will end up bearing the burdens of this federally-created autocracy.
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How was Hitler able to turn a democratic nation into an autocracy organized around race-based hatred?
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Trump, as allergic to multilateralism as he is susceptible to autocracy, has welcomed the unstitching of Europe.
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They've behaved as if the EU were an independent actor, a Brussels-based autocracy imposed on them.
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In your essay "Autocracy: Rules for Survival," your third rule was that institutions will not save you.
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During the century since the colonists left for Pax, the situation back on Earth has deteriorated into autocracy.
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Poverty, autocracy and restrictions on religious freedom have made citizens of the former Soviet republics susceptible to radicalisation.
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So India will not slide easily into Turkish-style autocracy—but plenty of secular, liberal Indians are nervous.
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Nicholas Wright, a neuroscientist who works on technology, said AI does not clearly favor either democracy or autocracy.
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The question is how much further Turkey can go along the path to autocracy without provoking serious unrest.
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It would also be naïve to assume this form AI autocracy will stay put in the Middle Kingdom.
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It is instead vulnerable to the most prevalent form of democratic backsliding — a slow descent toward partial autocracy.
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"The refusal to undergo scrutiny or allow for an appeal reeks of autocracy," the paper's editorial board wrote.
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A third ill-advised idea is that Arab autocracy is the way to hold back extremism and chaos.
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Congress may have its problems, but the real fight against corruption and autocracy is with the Trump administration.
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Autocracy squelches the individual and brings with it a dullness to life, while individual freedom brings a fullness.
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Taking a child from the arms of his mother is the act of an autocracy, not a democracy.
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But this worldview follows the time-honored expansionist ambitions of Russian autocracy under czars and Communist leaders alike.
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For them and other First Nations, our coming autocracy is just a new flavor of authoritarian disregard. Hmm.
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Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has reverted to autocracy, and Poland and Hungary are moving in the same direction.
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The question of how nations govern themselves — democracy versus autocracy — is being fought out among and within nations.
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Americans tend to ignore — or, more accurately, be tone-deaf to — the fact that China is an autocracy.
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"That's why, in 2020, we need to fight autocracy together with the international community," Lau said on Sunday.
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However, Moscow's political system is widely seen as being an autocracy with Putin possessing much of the power.
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Then he set out to stabilize the country and put it on a course of traditional Russian autocracy.
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The portrait's back-and-forth struck me as an image of a world hovering between autocracy and resistance.
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KAZAKHSTAN'S NEW president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has tried to sound like a refreshing change after decades of autocracy.
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Throughout its history, the Russian Orthodox Church was subservient to the state and an unshakable supporter of autocracy.
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How can we use what we've learned in those 50 years to combat the current turn toward autocracy?
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Like so many others, the American president seems unconcerned that autocracy is again breeding misery and extremism in Egypt.
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For a serenely unified, nationalist Chinese autocracy, unequivocally backed by its people, would be a terror to the world.
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In the 19th century, Orthodoxy was incorporated into an ideological triad of the state, along with nationalism and autocracy.
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Yet over the past two years, since the election of John Magufuli, Tanzania's descent into autocracy has been stunning.
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But the real story seems to be a collapse of faith in political authority, not an embrace of autocracy.
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In the end, the open-air prison of the tsarist autocracy collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions.
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Yes, but: Even after these first breaths of fresh air, hopes for the autocracy to transform overnight remain mistaken.
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That autocracy gives credence to Mr. Trump's position that elites want to take away our individual freedoms and choices.
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If we take the other, we'll be on the road to autocracy, with no obvious way to get off.
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This kind of corrupt legalism is a common practice among ruling parties in democracies that have fallen into autocracy.
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We can hope that Mr. Duda's courageous vetoes demonstrate a determination to keep Poland from the brink of autocracy.
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This anxiety we feel is a form of tyranny, a collective loss of liberty just as sure as autocracy.
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I'm going to spend Thanksgiving reading history books, learning about how the first 100 days of an autocracy go.
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" At the meeting Thursday, Natasha Lamb of Arjuna Capital struck a similar note, lamenting what she called Zuckerberg's "failing autocracy.
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Perhaps, like previous generations of Asian tigers, Bangladesh will endure a spell of autocracy before its politics become more democratic.
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That a clan-based autocracy can pull off such a modernisation programme seems doubtful, but nationalism is a strong motivator.
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In a report issued in March, a German research group, Bertelsmann Stiftung, said Hungary was "nearing" the threshold of autocracy.
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Because the ills of Communist autocracy are more familiar, resistance to it can easily be given a patina of heroism.
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It could, like Bangladesh itself, dissolve at any moment, washed away by the ocean — or the rising tide of autocracy.
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Democracy, which depends on shared truths, is in retreat, and autocracy, which depends on shared lies, is on the march.
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Anyone who thought autocracy would arrive with back-room deals or sleight-of-hand machinations at midnight should think again.
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Indeed, the US activist tradition may provide more protection from a slide toward Putin-like autocracy than any other institution.
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They identify incremental steps that begin as perfectly legal and may initially appear innocuous, but through which, eventually, autocracy emerges.
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Gessen's fourth rule for surviving an autocracy is to stay outraged, and we can use that fear to fuel our anger.
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Vietnamese leaders should know that their brand of autocracy will place an inevitable constraint on closer ties with the United States.
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Only recently, Finland, a historic fault line between democracy and autocracy, narrowly voted in a liberal party that edged out nationalists.
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Similarly, in the United States, the civil service, which scholars understand as a bulwark against autocracy, is protected largely by tradition.
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The pair are experts on populism, demagoguery and autocracy, notably in Europe and Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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The puzzle is not solved by crafting pseudoscientific tests for autocracy that give equal weight to harsh words and malign acts.
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More than any other country, China has shown that, with a few adjustments, autocracy is quite compatible with the internet age.
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Where Carter's bumbling technocracy fizzled out in a somewhat orderly way, Trump's autocracy of dunces won't necessarily conform to historical prologue.
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National crises make governments vulnerable to autocracy—a rather obvious assessment, perhaps, but one rarely seen in debates about climate change.
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Masha Gessen's "Autocracy: Rules for Survival" in the New York Review is a letter from someone that knows Putin's Russia well.
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For socialists, these are measures of emancipation, liberating men and women from the tyranny of the market and autocracy at work.
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Under American tutelage, South Korea eventually evolved from a desperately poor autocracy to one of the wealthiest democracies on the planet.
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I have news for Donald Trump: No matter how much he might admire Vladimir Putin's Russia, we will never accept autocracy.
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Reading from his resignation speech, Mr. Ugur lamented that the party was turning into an autocracy and was devouring its own.
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Asked how much innovation is possible in an autocracy where flows of information are strictly censored, he brushes the question aside.
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The larger point is that if Trump were cannier and more self-controlled, the march to autocracy might well be unstoppable.
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Autocracy breeds corruption and cronyism, and leaders who wallow in the swamp they pledged to drain cannot forever fool their base.
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Rutte put his foot down to prevent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey from using democratic Holland to further Turkish autocracy.
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He's bookish, too; he falls asleep studying Plutarch's " Lives " and has restless dreams in which philosophers bicker about socialism and autocracy.
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Editorial With Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic's decisive victory in the presidential election on April 2, Serbia has edged closer to autocracy.
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Anything but this same slow, inexorable drive toward autocracy, barbarism, and extinction, each day's headline falling like another blow from the truncheon.
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Mr Paulson is a Sinophile in a more nationalist America; Mr Wang is an economic reformer at the heart of an autocracy.
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Finally, they recognize that Iran's regional expansionism not only unsettles America's allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia, but spurs instability and autocracy.
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As a result, an international effort to reverse Venezuela's long slide into autocracy and humanitarian crisis became seen as an American campaign.
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In the past decade, an increasing number of seemingly stable, reasonably wealthy democracies have retreated from previously robust democratic regimes toward autocracy.
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To oppose monopoly, by definition, is to support an independent citizenry against financial autocracy—and few things are more American than that.
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Many leaders were despots who masked their autocracy with the rhetoric of Arab unity and the liberation of Palestine (and realised neither).
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The problem with using statistics to sing the praises of autocracy is that collecting verifiable data inside closed societies is nearly impossible.
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This movement by young people strikes fear in the autocracy sympathizers, causing legislators in 17 states to introduce bills to deter protests.
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Less surprising were his comments on the drift toward autocracy and away from the rule of law in parts of the continent.
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"Democracy, which depends on shared truths, is in retreat, and autocracy, which depends on shared lies, is on the march," he said.
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Some experts claim the world is at a "tipping point" where decreasing faith in democracy will drive the dominance of autocracy globally.
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Its progressive descent into the schizophrenic politics of autocracy, however, has driven a wedge between Erdogan and his American and European allies.
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Autocracy encourages sycophants to crowd around the Emperor, but this particular Emperor's new clothes are on full display for all to see.
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The government, in turn, wants to minimize seemingly inevitable losses, and trumpet the election as proof against accusations of autocracy in Venezuela.
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Populist autocracy tends to rise when the opposition party and civic movements are weak, or both are strong but hate each other.
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In her unelected, unappointed capacity, Ivanka Trump calls to mind a daughter not so much of American democracy as of nepotistic autocracy.
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But perhaps most critical is the country's strategic position and potential -- as a dagger of democracy into the heart of Putin's autocracy.
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Over the long term, the U.S. should continue highlighting Ergodan's autocracy and support civil society organizations that seek genuine democracy in Turkey.
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He has the instincts of a fascist but lacks both the discipline and the loyal lieutenants he'd need to create true autocracy.
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That February, 300 years of Romanov autocracy had been ended in a few dizzying days, while nothing had been put in its place.
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What remains one of the world's longest-lasting republics fell by the end of the first century BC, to be replaced by autocracy.
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Saudi Arabia is a closed autocracy with a controlled media, so it's not clear through what mechanism transparency per se could shift management.
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It looked as if four months of nationwide protests against Mr Bashir and his 30-year-old autocracy had culminated in a coup.
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Then the cycle repeats, until one day the tipping point is reached and you find your democracy has been transformed into an autocracy.
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But the path from populist autocracy to full-fledged dictatorship has one indispensable element: taking control of the judiciary and politicizing law enforcement.
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Historically, Russia's rulers, whether czars or commissars, reached for autocracy at the center to control the extraordinary diversity of peoples, cultures and religions.
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In the nearly three years since the coup attempt, Erdoğan has awarded himself additional powers, which has effectively turned Turkey into an autocracy.
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If people don't raise their hands and don't think straight and think for themselves, we run a real risk of slipping into autocracy.
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It has left the United States impotent to deal with our greatest challenges — inequality, alienation, climate change and a global drift toward autocracy.
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China's autocracy has managed to produce a tremendous number of patents and start-ups so far, so maybe Xi can pull this off.
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Without it, the law simply becomes a weapon for the powerful to use against the powerless, much as it is in an autocracy.
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Opinion Columnist For months we've heard from sundry media apocalypticians that this year's midterms were the last exit off the road to autocracy.
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In the context of the standoff between democracy and autocracy, his legal and potentially illicit activities demonstrate that he ultimately took a side.
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In the end, it is as simple as this: The way to stop an autocracy is to have Congress do its damn job.
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And although the United States is not an autocracy, our country is taking steps in that direction that I never imagined we would.
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Since the 1980s, the Communist Party has followed an unwritten rule to ensure an orderly leadership transition and prevent a Mao-style autocracy.
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They say such autocracy is a dangerous game in India given the complex ethnic, religious and caste divisions among its 1.3 billion people.
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Its tens of millions of young people, suffocating under autocracy and economic hardship, desperately need avenues for participation and to live with dignity.
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Over the past four decades, performance, sculpture, and painting have become his means of nonviolent protest against government autocracy and ethnic strife in Indonesia.
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On a scale ranking countries from -10 (full autocracy) to 10 (full democracy), he rated Russia and Venezuela at 4 and Iran at -20183.
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Still, the fall of Bashir has given even Chinese government newspapers the opportunity to publicly discuss the challenges of succession planning in an autocracy.
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Around the globe, politicians have found sympathetic majorities willing to disregard those rights, only to find that they have embraced autocracy in the bargain.
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But now there seems to be something in the nature of Arab monarchy—maliks, emirs and sultans—that is more resilient than presidential autocracy.
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In truth, the relationship between the two countries—one a vibrant, liberal democracy, the other a closed-off, puritanical autocracy—has always been awkward.
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National crises make governments vulnerable to autocracy, and the crisis of climate change is one that puts more than just developing nations at risk.
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South Africans can take heart from the judiciary's resolve against corruption and autocracy, but it is also a devastating indictment of post-apartheid governance.
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The question, which must remain unanswered, is whether this weekend has left America a step closer to embracing or professing preference for autocracy itself.
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On top of this is a growing chance of further political instability as more democracies move towards the twilight zone between democracy and autocracy.
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So far, Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus combines the worst features of autocracy and of democracy, mixing opacity and propaganda with leaderless inefficiency.
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President Nicolás Maduro marches toward autocracy, isolating his country from humanitarian aid and keeping opponents in jail ahead of a presidential election in May.
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In their view it does not matter whether a country is a democracy or an autocracy; what matters is the quality of its leader.
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"This limitless grant of emergency powers is tantamount to autocracy," a Philippine rights group, the Concerned Lawyers for Civil Liberties, said in a statement.
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Undoubtedly, she will continue where she left off, working on behalf of the American people as well as resisting Donald Trump's push for autocracy.
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Photograph: Getty Images Christopher Brown's first novel, Tropic of Kansas, is about a charismatic CEO who becomes president and moves the country toward autocracy.
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In "The Testaments," Atwood weaves together the stories of three female narrators in Gilead, a religious autocracy in what was formerly the United States.
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The GOP has radicalized into an anti-system party that does not accept the legitimacy of its opposition and enables a slide toward autocracy.
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Since November 9th, we've heard a lot of talk about unreality, and how what's normal bends when you're in a state of incipient autocracy.
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It's stomach-churning, because hypocrisy and autocracy go together: lack of transparency is the enemy of democracy, and we already had a democracy suspended.
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But even by the grim standards of Mr Hun Sen's 32-year rule, his latest efforts to dismantle the opposition mark a lurch towards autocracy.
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The World Values Survey, a global study by social scientists from over 100 countries, found that far fewer millennials object to autocracy than their elders.
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But if America until recently championed democracy, Russia is becoming, in effect, the foremost defender of autocracy—at least in the view of Arab rulers.
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Lind argues that talk of literal autocracy under Trump could "normalize" this type of tragedy, making it look less awful compared to our worst fears.
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But until we recognize this deep cultural template and understand where it comes from, explanations for the rise of autocracy will continue to elude us.
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The first fan of Dennis Rodman sits atop a brittle autocracy that likely cannot survive more open relations with the South over the longer term.
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If nothing Trump does matters during this administration, nothing our system of democracy has in place to prevent descent into autocracy and tyranny matters, either.
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Only if you believe in individual rights, civil liberties and the strength of multi-lateral liberal democratic coalitions as a bulwark against ethno-nationalist autocracy.
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Three decades after the Cold War defeat of a blunt and crude autocracy, a more clever brand takes nourishment from the murk that surrounds us.
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HUNGARIAN STATE OPERA This company's high-profile burst of cultural diplomacy comes as its home country is fast becoming a semi-autocracy under Viktor Orban.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orban has pioneered a model of soft autocracy that combines crony capitalism and far-right rhetoric with a single-party political culture.
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Rule-of-law advocates in Brussels would also like to build in conditionality, so that if countries move towards autocracy, their funding could be cut.
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After Ukraine and Syria, the next site of Russian military intervention could well be Belarus, an obscure autocracy where the West has few interests at stake.
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He has faced serious pushback for hubris, especially the last two years as the West, in country after country, has made a decided turn to autocracy.
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It's got a million Uighurs in concentration camps, it censors its internet, and President Xi Jinping is increasing the level of autocracy and centralization of power.
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Journalist Masha Gessen, who wrote Autocracy: Rules for Survival, said that everyday normalities should not blind us to the very not-normal things that are occurring.
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The Venice Commission, an advisory body to the Council of Europe, has warned in a leaked report that the country is on the road to autocracy.
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He probably couldn't turn America into Denmark, and even if he could, President Trump is trying to turn us into a white nationalist autocracy like Hungary.
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It's easy to understand why Iranians would oppose their 37-year-old clerical regime, a religious autocracy characterized by corruption, mismanagement, and political and social repression.
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After decades of autocracy, Algeria's hollow political institutions offer few alternatives—though perhaps there is a mechanic named Abdelaziz Bouteflika open to an unexpected career change.
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In 2017, autocracy — that is, government in which one person wields unlimited authority — seemed to have the upper hand against the troubled democracies of the West.
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" She says, "No previous presidential candidate would have ever dreamt of trashing our country like that or suggesting moral equivalency between American democracy or Russian autocracy.
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For as long as the party kept flirting with autocracy, where government, leader and ideology made one unchecked force, China would never reform or truly advance.
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Mr. Putin has been tinkering in recent years with restoring the three pillars of czarist rule as the basis for his own: orthodoxy, autocracy and nationalism.
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For Nadler, these are no less important than his mandate to counter the momentum toward autocracy and to shore up democratic institutions and practices under siege.
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Whether in East Germany or Czechoslovakia in 1989 or Tunisia in 2010, it's hard to predict when popular anger against autocracy will reach a turning point.
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The huge majority of those living in an autocracy — four out of five of those who live in an authoritarian regime — live in one country, China.
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I wish there was someone I could ask, but we know more about how countries slide into autocracy than how they might climb out of it.
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Over time, though, the country's judicial standards and rigorous protections for the accused made the jailing of political enemies difficult, maintaining a crucial bulwark against autocracy.
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Netanyahu currently heads a caretaker government and his critics have accused him of taking a turn towards autocracy during the coronavirus outbreak, an allegation he denies.
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Thus the weekend's ballot is also a test as to whether there can be an autocracy inside the European Union, a self-declared club of democracies.
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Fighting populist autocracy requires party-movement collaboration: Parties need movements to help to mobilize opinion, and movements need parties to strategize about legislative priorities and elections.
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This is the natural evolution of an autocracy — when its public slowly turns against the regime, brute force remains the only means to stay in power.
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More than 20083 percent of Republicans are slouching toward full-blown autocracy, favorably disposed, in one poll, toward a presidency unfettered by constitutional checks and balances.
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Nor is it clear, postelection, whether the threat is an incipient oligarchy or an incipient populist autocracy; our new president tweets from one to the other.
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Just like the U.S. government has worked tirelessly to combat organized crime, policymakers need to labor doggedly to beat back the creeping tentacles of Russian autocracy.
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The yellow-blue ideological struggle pits Hong Kong's rule of law against China's "rule by law," free societies against President Xi Jinping's intensifying surveillance-state autocracy.
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In his 2018 book The New Autocracy, UCLA Russia expert Daniel Treisman sees the use of outsiders like Prigozhin as characteristic of Putin's current governing strategy.
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But it's far likelier that Trump understood exactly what Erdogan had just accomplished in bringing his country closer to autocracy — and that he liked what he saw.
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The likelier scenario is that Trump understood exactly what Erdoğan had just accomplished in bringing his country closer to autocracy — and that he liked what he saw.
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""Plus, some art historians think Goya painted his piece as an allegory for the Spanish autocracy devouring its citizens, particularly the younger generation," she went on. "Mr.
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Whether it bounces back from this commodity slump or slips back into stagnation, war and autocracy will depend on whether enough of its leaders keep moving forward.
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Critics of the measures say the referendum reflects a return to the kind of autocracy protesters marched against during the uprising against Mubarak's nearly 85033-year reign.
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The designation will trigger a new set of sanctions on the isolated autocracy, including penalties for those who engage in certain kinds of trade with the country.
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The sport is not quite the autocracy it was when U.C.L.A. won 10 national titles in 12 years in the 1960s and '70s under Coach John Wooden.
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There could be an infectious disease outbreak, or revolution in the capital of a friendly autocracy, or a recession, or a bank failure, or a terrorist attack.
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Our city finds itself in an uncomfortable place: on the front line between freedom and autocracy I am not the face of Hong Kong's protests this time.
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And I want to shift the locus of responsibility a bit: if Trump builds an autocracy, his congressional enablers will, if anything, be more responsible than him.
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I am certainly not comparing Trump to the Nazi regime (although in his own entry-level, illiberal way, he has adopted many of the themes of autocracy).
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Political ruin is on the horizon and Trump — with his clear taste for autocrats and autocracy — will undermine American democracy if that will keep it at bay.
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" In his United Nations speech on Tuesday, Mr. Trump called North Korea's autocracy a "band of criminals" and Mr. Kim a "Rocket Man" on "a suicide mission.
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The remarks could easily offend officials in North Korea, where a cultlike autocracy exalts Mr. Kim as a deity who cannot be seen as servile and weak.
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Basically, he believed that democracies fall into tyranny when too much freedom leads to disorder and citizens choose the stability of autocracy over the chaos of democracy.
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It suggests that even a real election could elevate a leader who, following the model of today's nationalists and populists, replaces one kind of autocracy with another.
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It is no coincidence that the forces tearing apart the European Union are gaining strength even as we are seeing an alarming rise in nationalism, nativism and autocracy.
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If these movies feel like indirect answers to the problem of how to satirize Trump, it's because they're reminders that there's nothing new about the impulses toward autocracy.
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"I really think that he thinks this is an autocracy," Swift told The Guardian in reference to the system of government in which one person has absolute power.
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THE VICTORY of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, in a referendum on April 19803th is seen by many observers as a worrying step on the road to autocracy.
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The Venice Commission, a constitutional law arm of the Council of Europe, maintained last Wednesday that the result would be "autocracy and a one-person regime" in Turkey.
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An improved and independent Congress will save our democracy from becoming an autocracy of sycophants who have forgotten their role as overseers and checks on the executive branch.
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If the day should come when those in power are above the law, the United States will be that autocracy that our Founders worked — and fought — to avoid.
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They say she is being set up to fail, a play to humiliate one of Duterte's few remaining rivals to challenge his popular autocracy ahead of 2022 elections.
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They, too, offer autocracy hiding behind a democratic facade, laying claim ever more unconvincingly to democratic practices like majority rule and the appearance of independent institutions of governance.
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And so it follows that, in spaces of power, such as at the palaces of royalty, autocracy, and rulership, the ceiling becomes an exercise in communicating that domination.
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Thomas L. Friedman This column has argued for a while now that there is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy.
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He spent much of his energy struggling against resistance from an entrenched establishment — the soldiers, spies, police, judges and bureaucrats left in place from six decades of autocracy.
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And a general's attempt to end the chaos in Libya by instituting a new autocracy recalls the unhappy outcomes of the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain, Syria and Yemen.
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This election is probably the last before Hungary shifts from what is already a deeply damaged democracy to what political scientists would call a full-blown electoral autocracy.
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Instead it remains a patrimonial Muscovite autocracy where the state controls all of the economy and owns a high percentage, often estimated at approximately 28500 percent of it.
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The truth is that allowing him to stay in power would be an affront to the will of Bolivian voters and a step on the road to autocracy.
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Tunisia's economy has suffered years of low growth since the uprising that ended autocracy and introduced democratic rule, with successive governments struggling to create jobs and tame inflation.
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But Russia today, Ms. Schulmann said, resembles not so much the rigidly regimented country ruled by Stalin as the dilapidated autocracy of Russia in the early 19th century.
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Ultimately, Trump seems far more a hybrid of Berlusconi and Putin, potentially merging kleptocracy and autocracy, than the reincarnation of an ideologically driven, war-mongering, and genocidal dictator.
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VENEZUELA Venezuela's socialist leader Nicolas Maduro faced fresh international censure after re-election in a vote foes denounced as a farce cementing autocracy in the crisis-stricken OPEC nation.
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Morocco has a deeply rooted monarchy - the Muslim world's longest-serving dynasty - while Tunisia's autocracy was based around Ben Ali, who came to power in 1987, and his family.
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But Putin has rallied support by annexing the Crimea, by depicting the West as Russia's enemy, by invoking the old czarist Trinity of principles: autocracy, nationality, and Orthodox religion.
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The party does not want to be reminded that its supporters were once attracted by its promise of liberation from autocracy, not by the dictatorship it came to represent.
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Snow's description of Mao, then in his early 40s, as an idealist who wanted to save China from Chiang's corrupt autocracy and build a democratic country mesmerised the world.
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He destroyed all of the ideologies of the old world created anew: defeated a cult; killed an oil-and-gun baron; avoided the terrors of autocracy and democracy equally.
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It begins to look very Orwellian, and I guess that technological autocracy is what I worry about in the tech sphere, that China is just blazing the trail for.
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The EU must not abandon the nearly half of Turkey's population who did not vote for the removal of separation of powers and with it, the codification of autocracy.
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That is especially true of Hugo Chávez's "Bolivarian revolution", which used oil wealth (now dried up) to build an elected autocracy and a state-controlled economy (now in ruins).
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The releases followed Maduro's re-election at a poll last month that was condemned by Western nations as a farce cementing an autocracy in the South American OPEC member.
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But if we merely prove to be kinder, gentler corporate stooges — if we allow the nascent Trump loyalist autocracy to take hold — we may not get a second chance.
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The reason: The country's dictator-in-training, Nicolás Maduro, plans to complete the transition to a full-blown autocracy by rewriting the constitution through proxies "elected" on July 30.
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He defied term limits and brought accusations of autocracy when he won a legal challenge to a 2016 referendum in which Bolivians voted against allowing him to run again.
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The kingdom had never been a democracy — more of a soft-gloved autocracy, where citizens kept up appearances in public but could mostly say what they liked in private.
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As we've seen in other democracies around the world that succumb to autocracy (think Russia, Hungary, Turkey, Venezuela), the decline in institutions is both cause and consequence of authoritarianism.
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Defiance of the ruling would put Israeli democracy to a new test amid allegations by Netanyahu's critics that he has taken a turn toward autocracy, Israeli political commentators said.
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The last czar, Nicholas II, is alternately seen as a weak master who either foolishly allowed the autocracy to founder or who failed to ride with a democratizing tide.
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European officials find it embarrassing to face up to the existence of a quasi-autocracy within the club, and thus have been slow to punish Hungary for its transgressions.
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Orban has progressively tightened his hold on power during his decade in office and critics say he is moving the country towards becoming an autocracy, an accusation he rejects.
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Mr. Xi's overriding focus is not on spreading his brand of autocracy, but on eliminating risks to his rule at home and securing his nation's economic growth and security.
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A crucial part of the story is that the emerging autocracy uses the power of the state to intimidate and co-opt civil society — institutions outside the government proper.
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At a time when Putin's machinations and motives are the subject of intense interest, Pichugin's plight offers a cautionary tale of Russia's autocracy that is ignored at our peril.
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The results alarmed Western governments that had watched as Mr. Orban, above, transformed the European Union country into a semi-autocracy rife with crony capitalism and far-right rhetoric.
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Instead of an illiberal democracy — like Turkey's — he would build its opposite, a socially liberal autocracy, much as Lee Kuan Yew did in Singapore in the 20143s and '70s.
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Because you can either have an autocracy, in other words, the boss tells people how it's going to be; or you can have a democracy, one man, one vote.
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Tunisia's economy has suffered years of low growth since the 2011 revolution that ended autocracy and introduced democratic rule, with successive governments struggling to create jobs and tame inflation.
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Tunisia's economy has suffered years of low growth since the 2011 revolution that ended autocracy and introduced democratic rule, with successive governments struggling to create jobs and tame inflation.
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And European countries, without America's middle-class Constitution, face some of the same threats, though more from autocracy than from plutocracy, which their constitutions may have helped them resist.
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Most opposition parties have decided to boycott the vote, accusing Vucic and his coalition of autocracy, stifling media freedom, attacks on opposition activists, corruption and ties to organized crime.
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Putin has revealed that the fundamental nature of Russian autocracy, regardless of who runs it, is imperial and thus aggressive and a standing obstacle to European peace and security.
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But it's also a reminder of how any abuse of power requires enablers, and institutions whose bottom line rely on compliance are probably not going to save anyone from autocracy.
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Another report, by the Venice Commission, an advisory body to the Council of Europe, concluded that the new constitution that Mr Erdogan is pushing for is a manual for autocracy.
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"These findings indicate that the main result about democracy and autocracy is indeed driven by the differences in political institutions that characterize these regimes," Martinez said, according to The Post.
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Despite the growing cries of autocracy against Museveni, Washington has backed him as a strongman who has turned Uganda into a bulwark of stability in Africa's troubled Great Lakes region.
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Attend a Besiktas match, or almost any other in Turkey, lap up the revelry and the anthems, and you might think football has survived the country's descent into autocracy unscathed.
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Convinced that only an autocracy could hold the empire together, Nicholas II tried to rule a growing and increasingly sophisticated society as though he were an 18th-century absolute monarch.
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The civilians want a longer transition period to give sufficient time for the country's political culture, underdeveloped after years of autocracy, to mature so that the elections are a success.
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And he oversaw a redrafting of the constitution that consolidated power under the presidency, steering the country toward autocracy, and moved to quash all dissenting voices through violence and intimidation.
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Of course, Russia is as far from achieving a fully rule-based political system complete with separation of powers as the United States is from descending into a personalist autocracy.
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The lack of progress, development, and freedom in Mauritanian society inspired in Salahi a righteous anger toward autocracy and corruption, and a desire to fight for something bigger than himself.
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To understand the threat from this process, it's worth looking at a country that has become an autocracy despite retaining a legal code that seems, on paper, fully democratic: Hungary.
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Analysts say they worry that the country is edging toward a model of autocracy similar to Egypt's after a 2013 coup by the former military leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
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It is between culture and the void, between the many and variegated ways in which different people try to live together peacefully and productively, and the pure nihilism of autocracy.
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But after the 2008 election of Mohamed Nasheed as president — the first democratically elected leader after 30 years under autocracy — a law was passed that allowed residents to open guesthouses.
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The most immediate of these hopes, the replacement of autocracy by constitutional democracy, was inscribed in the very name of the party that came to power after the February Revolution.
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It's marketed as a paradise "where sands are as white as the smiles of the locals," but the Maldives appears to be descending ever closer towards a return to autocracy.
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Even Star Wars is starting to feel relevant, telling the story of a slow drift toward cruel autocracy authored by a sallow-faced maniac who prefers to hide in the shadows.
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Many Bolivians who suspect the vote was rigged fear their country's institutions are being co-opted by the governing party in a manner that reminds them of Venezuela's descent into autocracy.
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Why it matters: Russian lawmakers say the bills are intended to combat fake and abusive comments online, but critics have labeled the legislation "direct censorship" and yet another step toward autocracy.
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Can we -- given what our Congress focuses on, they are focused on Russia, what our media focus on and so forth, China has a single focus because it&aposs an autocracy.
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The borders of the fictional post-Soviet autocracy Arstotzka are opened for the first time in years, and you are one of the everyday citizens tasked with securing your nation's borders.
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His outburst also elevates Kim, leader of an impoverished autocracy using a nuclear program to ensure its survival, to a tit-for-tat confrontation alongside the President of the United States.
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It just might be that the judiciary, Congress, and the media will respond to Trump's constitutional challenges by operating, however imperfectly, the way were intended to operate: as bulwarks against autocracy.
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In Moscow intellectual circles, the phrase "hybrid regime" has become over the last few years a popular way of explaining why Russia can appear to combine autocracy with some democratic procedures.
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Turkey remains a NATO ally and provides a vital bulwark against the civil war in neighboring Syria, causing many in Washington to put a lid on concerns about Erdoğan's creeping autocracy.
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The early-morning raids came just 10 days after Erdoğan narrowly won a controversial referendum that critics in Turkey and abroad warn could transform the Turkish government into an outright autocracy.
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He imagines a Trumpian autocracy built upon the most ordinary of foundations: a growing economy, a cynical public, a cowed media, a self-interested business community, and a compliant Republican Party.
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On the other, he is a prominent nationalist, critics compare him to Venezuelan dictators Hugo Chavez and Nicholas Maduro, and the fear his moral superiority could turn Mexico into a leftist autocracy.
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The show (and novel) follow the story of Offred (Moss), a child-bearing slave in a theocratic autocracy that has replaced the United States after an extreme Christian sect orchestrated a coup.
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The only way to rectify the adverse consequences of these three decade old policies for the Iranian people and the resistance, is to recognize the Iranian resistance and overthrow the ruling autocracy.
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Maduro's opponents launched a two-day national strike on Wednesday as they sought to pressure him into abandoning a weekend election for a super-congress they say will institutionalize autocracy in Venezuela.
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The Kremlin has tried to impose an archaic triad of nationalism, Orthodoxy and autocracy as well as confrontation with the West which can temporarily suppress problems but are unable to resolve them.
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In a new book, "The Retreat of Western Liberalism", Edward Luce, a commentator for the Financial Times in Washington, argues that distrust will contribute to America's decline and eventually, even, to autocracy.
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But to have the perspective of someone who was growing up on a continent that is rife with autocracy and demagoguery, and arrived just in time for America's own version of that?
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Focused on economic predation of North Korea, which entails productive relations with Kim's ruthless autocracy, both China and Russia have openly stated their support for reducing sanctions before North Korea completes denuclearization.
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It would be a story about the threats to today's United States — climate change, global autocracy, a rising China and a plutocratic class trying to dominate the American political and economic systems.
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But Ms. Baker was not always in agreement with Dr. King or the other ministers who made up the S.C.L.C.: She believed in bottom-up grass-roots organizing, not top-down autocracy.
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This part of the world had little tradition of civil society and liberal democracy, and in his view these needed to be nurtured if the region was to avoid backsliding into autocracy.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who ruled for 30 years until he was ousted in a popular uprising against corruption and autocracy, died on Tuesday at the age of 91.
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But right now, Democrats need a brawler willing to use every tool at her disposal to stop America's descent into autocracy, and Pelosi has so far refused to rise to the occasion.
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The point is that given the character of the Republican Party, we'd be well on the way to autocracy if the man in the White House had even slightly more self-control.
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The political philosopher Elizabeth Anderson has argued, in Private Government, that we need to start applying political concepts like "democracy" and "autocracy" to the private sphere as well as the public sphere.
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While avoiding the hyperbolic "axis of evil" rhetoric of the George W. Bush era, Buttigieg sees the world in largely binary terms, as a contest of universal values of democracy against autocracy.
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Comparisons have been made to the rise of Putinist autocracy in Russia (here at Vox and elsewhere), to the slow descent of Turkey into authoritarianism under Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to Nazi Germany.
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But Iran is an adversary, so it can be distasteful for Americans to acknowledge that its hybrid system lies in the vast gray area between US-style democracy and Saudi-style autocracy.
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Politically, the country has been tilting away from the West for years: becoming more stridently Islamist, picking fights with NATO allies and transforming itself into a virtual autocracy under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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In May, President Nicolas Maduro won re-election in a vote the Venezuelan opposition, United States and other Latin American nations decried as a sham, cementing an autocracy that has devastated the economy.
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A study by Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that switching from autocracy to democracy adds 20% to income per head over 30 years, though some economists dispute these findings.
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"What these sanctions are seeking to avoid is that countries outside the Western hemisphere come rescue Maduro financially so that he can consolidate an autocracy," said Venezuelan opposition lawmaker and economist Angel Alvarado.
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While populist autocracy is a real phenomenon in global politics, it happens to be the No. 1 problem the authors of the US Constitution had in mind when designing our system of government.
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Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro faced widespread international condemnation on Monday after his re-election in a weekend vote his critics denounced as a farce cementing autocracy in the crisis-stricken oil producer.
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From the vantage point of one year ago, the rise of Donald Trump looked in many ways like a popular revolt against the crisis-generating gridlock of divided government in favor of autocracy.
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His various activities landed him in prison several times and finally earned him, in 1913, a sentence to Siberian exile, where he remained until the fall of the tsarist autocracy, in February, 1917.
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In theory, this allows movements to stay both nimble (an emergency on the ground is when you call in the brass) and on guard against autocracy (no group can decide for the many).
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In 2009, when Mr. Bongo won the election after the death of his father, Omar Bongo, violence broke out as protesters called the vote a fraud and the Bongo family rule an autocracy.
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And Trump, as his West Wing staff begins to hollow out and his fascination with the techniques and personalities of global autocracy grows, appears intent on expanding the scope of his own power.
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If you fear the creep of autocracy or the crisis of absentee leadership in Trump's White House, then the truly troubling thing isn't that government officials, current and former, are sounding the alarm.
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Even if the wonks are right that Trump won't usher in autocracy and that the Democrats will seize enough power to block his worst impulses, he's exposed horrific flaws in the US system.
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It also turned a blind eye to Hugo Chávez's and Nicolás Maduro's despotism in Venezuela, Evo Morales's autocratic socialism in Bolivia, Daniel Ortega's authoritarian turn in Nicaragua, and Cuba's long-term communist autocracy.
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Mr. Gantz, who had tried to rally Israelis behind the rule of law, had argued that even a narrow advantage for Mr. Netanyahu in Parliament could lead to a dangerous slide into autocracy.
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Once he was dead, they believed, the public would realize that the emperor was not the demigod depicted in the teachings of the Russian Orthodox Church and would rise up against the autocracy.
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A new paper from the economists Oded Galor and Marc Klemp finds a strong correlation between diversity and autocracy in pre-colonial societies, with a legacy that extends to today's institutions as well.
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The disturbing message that sends does not end at our borders — it extends to countries, like those in the former East Bloc, struggling to overcome an illiberal turn in the direction of autocracy.
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Far removed from urban activists who protest government autocracy, public opinion has shifted most sharply in provincial areas, where Mr. Putin's popularity has stemmed from economic gains as much as from national pride.
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The liberal-democratic state is a relatively recent historical innovation, and our best accounts of the transition from autocracy to democracy points to the role of democratic political inclusion in protecting property rights.
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That is because the United States is not an autocracy with a national oil company, but a vast network of hundreds of small producers making their own decisions and taking their own risks.
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President Tayyip Erdogan's government has jailed more than 77,000 people pending trial since the 2016 coup attempt and widespread arrests are still routine in a crackdown critics say demonstrates growing autocracy in Turkey.
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The sanctification of that victory, and Stalin's role in it, has become the main ideological foundation of Mr Putin's velvet Stalinism, disguised as patriotism—an old mix of Russian Orthodoxy, state nationalism and autocracy.
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Wu, in a statement released by his lawyers late on Tuesday, said he considered the sentence an "honor" as it proved that he had not become a "slave" or "accomplice" to the China's "autocracy".
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The possibility of AI autocracy in the People's Republic is real, and it is one that Western tech companies are tacitly endorsing when they choose to forfeit digital rights in favor of market access.
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His ties to Russia, and his apparent desire to treat the United States like a kleptocracy, or an autocracy, or a Goldman-Sachs-and-Big-Oil-ocracy, have offered no relief for the fearful.
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In exchange for loyalty, these cronies are allowed to prosper and gain entrée in the West, all bankrolled by the blood money of graft, autocracy and aggression from Idlib to Salisbury to the Donbas.
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The Olympics may occasionally seem like a sovereign autocracy, given the more than 23,000 families uprooted to make room for the Games and the some 85,000 security forces now patrolling the streets of Rio.
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Here, in the third novel of a trilogy, Tambu faces breakdowns and the realization that her hard-won achievements do not guarantee upward mobility in a Zimbabwe beset by poverty, autocracy, and white privilege.
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The picture resonates because it combines two forces many sense at work — Trump's will to power and the fecklessness of the institutions meant to stop him — into one future everyone fears: autocracy in America.
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Mr. Kadyrov's style — as a strongman who doesn't mince words, solves problems and can either buy or bully anyone into submission — has gained appeal as Russia itself continues on its journey toward populist autocracy.
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These days of presidential interregnum have seen newspapers' opinion pages fill with warnings of tyranny and autocracy, fueled by the election of a man whose campaign rhetoric showed disregard for normal rules of conduct.
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Indeed, Stone's sentencing turned into a microcosm of the battle to save the rule of law in this country, a battle so important that it lies on the line that separates democracy from autocracy.
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"Reports of the CIA's conclusion that Russia actively sought to help elect Donald Trump are simultaneously stunning and not surprising, given Russia's disdain for democracy and admiration for autocracy," Schumer said in a statement.
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In fact, Deng Xiaoping, considered to be China's great modern reformer and the man who cracked down on the dissidents in 1989, was an admirer of the Singaporean way of combining capitalism with autocracy.
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The point is to burnish his image as the revolutionary living almost ascetically, sharing his food with his comrades, despite the whiff of autocracy, rampant corruption and patronage that soon enveloped his Palestinian Authority.
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This timeworn argument, often used to justify autocracy, is now being fused with a religious doctrine earlier propounded by Ilyin: Russia is a unique and separate Christian civilization whose responsibilities are only to God.
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That disturbs the more established democracies of Western Europe, but does not worry the leaders of some of the nations to the east that emerged from Communism and autocracy less than 30 years ago.
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The source of their power — given their high popularity ratings and successful identification with themes of national grandeur and the undoing of actual or supposed victimizations — is much better understood as demagoguery than autocracy.
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That contrast provoked a group of intellectuals, known as the Committee against Autocracy and Communalism, to launch a petition in 1988 demanding the removal of the constitutional clause that recognized Islam as the official religion.
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The tsar the Kremlin most admires is Alexander III, who on taking office in 22014 reversed the liberalisation overseen by his father, who was assassinated, to impose an official ideology of Orthodoxy, nationalism and autocracy.
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Unless we can find a better way to ensure that our constitutional democracy serves the country's needs, we run the risk of losing support for democracy to the growing forces of autocracy here and abroad.
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While it's easy to imagine scenarios where that ceases to be true — a terrorist attack, for instance — the fact remains that so far, incompetence, not autocracy or even ruthless efficacy, has defined the Trump administration.
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One thing we have learned from the Arab Spring uprisings that toppled their leaders is that in almost every country the alternative to autocracy turned out not to be democracy, but disorder or military dictatorship.
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I'm not bringing this up to suggest that Trump is a disciple of Snezhnevsky, despite his bizarre affinity for Kremlin autocracy, or merely to point out that the president was once again making things up.
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Mubarak had always maintained his innocence and said history would judge him a patriot who served his country selflessly, but for many Egyptians his time in power was a period of autocracy and crony capitalism.
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Any political paralysis entails new risks for a fragile economy that has never really recovered from the shock of the 2011 revolution that ended decades of autocracy, introduced democracy and set off the "Arab spring".
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"Erdogan won't let this opportunity be missed to not only thoroughly clean the military but to finally realise his project of a constitutional amendment with the objective of autocracy," Oezdemir told Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
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For all the Western complaints about the parlous state of human rights, in their hearts they know they need a country which is stable and predictable -- even if it is a stable and predictable autocracy.
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A common feature of modern democracies that have backslid into a form of autocracy — places like Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela — is that leaders cease drawing distinctions between their personal political interests and the national interest.
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Read more " _____ Greg Sargent in The Washington Post: "Today's vastly different media landscape creates incentives — or at least, the appearance of incentives — for Trump to opt for a course of full-blown autocracy and lawlessness.
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Early in Trump's presidency, Yuval Levin, the editor of the conservative journal National Affairs, predicted to me that this White House was likelier to be defined by "dysfunction than autocracy," and so far he's been right.
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The UK and U.S. have had little to say in response to the verdict (or during Egypt's rapid descent into autocracy over the past half-decade.) Since 22019, Sisi has tightened his grip on the country.
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Prime Minister Ahmed and his cabinet have been credited for Ethiopia's shift away from autocracy and for bringing the country back from the brink, all of which has boosted the East African country's overall economic outlook.
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I hoped Libya could escape its cycle of violence by drafting a new constitution and holding new elections, ultimately proving that it could build democratic institutions, as Tunisia did, without plunging into autocracy and military rule.
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The Mediterranean island nation, situated between Sicily and Tunisia, counts among its unwelcome guests the Romans, the Ottomans, Napoleon and, in the early 99403th century, hundreds of Russian aristocrats fleeing the fall of the czarist autocracy.
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By crediting it, Trump equated the American justice system with that of a lawless autocracy whose recent crimes, beyond the 2016 campaign, range from the seizure of Crimea to murder via nerve agent on British soil.
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Let's hope that the pope will find the courage to begin moving toward the end of the all-male autocracy that has brought the church to this crisis and is at the heart of the matter.
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"The Testaments" is set 15 years after the events of "The Handmaid's Tale" and in the same place: Gilead, the religious autocracy where women are stripped of their rights and many are kept in sexual slavery.
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" An American intelligence report published this year raised the possibility that "Cambodia's slide toward autocracy," as Mr. Hun Sen tightens his 34-year grip on power, "could lead to a Chinese military presence in the country.
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Besides cementing the traditional link of empire, imperialism and autocracy as two sides of the same coin, Moscow probably wants to annex Belarus to set up military bases and deployments for its air and ground forces.
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Turnout at the May 20 election is expected to be low given Venezuelans' depression over an unprecedented economic meltdown and a boycott by the mainstream opposition which views the poll as a farce intended to legitimize autocracy.
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Egypt chose a different path, preferring to return to the wonted pain of dysfunctional autocracy and avoid civil war (although civil war seems even still to be creeping up on the Egyptians out of Sinai and Libya).
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Even today, Russia, still unrepentant for this action, would be the only autocracy in the G-8, with a GDP that ranks below every other member and indeed below non-members Brazil, India, China and South Korea.
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China, a former student of Russia in autocracy, is not only winning in the game of globalization, it is now trying to master the difficult steps of reordering its economy to succeed in a new technological generation.
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Through legislative fiat and force of will, Mr. Orban has transformed the country into a political greenhouse for an odd kind of soft autocracy, combining crony capitalism and far-right rhetoric with a single-party political culture.
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Yet efforts to hold presidents in the region from moving toward autocracy could be much more effective if governments reacted as the checks and balances are being dismantled, rather than wait until the situation becomes a crisis.
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"I'm talking about a kindred spirit between the president of the United States and the president of Russia when it comes toward a trend toward autocracy, the strong man, that kind of approach to governance," he said.
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The vacuum created by the collapse of the autocracy was filled in part by a provisional government, formed from the opposition groups in the previously powerless Duma, or Parliament, and in part by workers' councils, called soviets.
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For instance, the US's overall rating (62) is below that of Rwanda, a full-on autocracy under strongman Paul Kagame; it seems foolish to infer from that that the US is less of a democracy than Rwanda.
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" Masha Gessen, author of "The Man With No Face," a biography of Putin, drew parallels between the Russian leader and Trump in a piece for the New York Review of Books on "rules for surviving in an autocracy.
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Over the past year, Mr Xi has sought to present China as a model for other countries, a meritocratic autocracy that has presided over fast economic growth and avoided the muddle and policy lurches that have beset democracies.
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Mursi promised a moderate Islamist agenda to steer Egypt into a new democratic era where autocracy would be replaced by transparent government that respected human rights and revived the fortunes of a powerful Arab state long in decline.
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Activists hail radical leaders such as Evo Morales in Bolivia as bulwarks against neoliberalism and decry any attempt to rein in the government of Venezuela, whose economy has collapsed as its left-wing leaders have turned to autocracy.
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Partnering with allies like the United Kingdom, Canada and Japan to confront security challenges and foster robust, democratic alternatives to violent extremism and autocracy reduces the danger to us all, and keeps the world safer and more prosperous.
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While a tougher collective response to President Nicolás Maduro's march to autocracy and the looming state collapse is necessary and long overdue, the United States has a diverse range of interests that go beyond mobilizing action against Venezuela.
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"In the U.S., however, the idea is an utter anathema to everything the Founding Fathers believed and the carefully crafted Constitution they bequeathed us, which was explicitly designed to limit just such a drift towards monarchy or autocracy."
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Efforts to rescue Tunisia's ailing economy face the prospect of fresh turmoil after the president declared his alliance with moderate Islamists at an end, deepening divisions in a fragile coalition managing the country's transition from autocracy.
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As pursued by its purists — Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong — socialism produced mass death for those who opposed its autocracy and a dramatic collapse in the standard of living of those who had to suffer it.
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Atlantic writer David Frum, in his recent cover story "How to Build an Autocracy," imagines the all-too-real possibility that a Trump presidency could result in few structural changes, but widespread malaise and a frightening consolidation of power.
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CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Critics at home and abroad on Monday denounced the re-election of Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro as a farce cementing autocracy, while the U.S. government imposed new sanctions on the crisis-stricken oil-producing country.
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Tsar Nicholas is a hero to conservatives and ultra-conservatives, although some deplore the fact that he abdicated in March 1917, allowing democracy to seep into a land whose natural form of governance, in their view, is sacred autocracy.
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John McCain was many things in life — a war hero, a political reformer, a militarist, a principled opponent of torture — but one thing he was not was a member of the resistance to President Trump and his aspirational autocracy.
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In the 1940s and 33s, when the American consortium recruited young Saudis, it was an "unlikely union of Bedouin Arabs and Texas oil men, a traditional Islamic autocracy allied with modern American capitalism", writes Daniel Yergin in "The Prize".
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From the development initiatives of Jeffrey Sachs and Bill Gates, to Tony Blair's despotic partnerships or Tom Friedman championing Chinese autocracy in The New York Times, the last two decades have seen political concerns repeatedly sidelined by development statistics.
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Obama's reluctance to stand firmly for the idea of liberty and lead the free world against autocracy, as well as his tendency to assume a regretful or skeptical tone about the exercise of American power, has angered many Americans.
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The structure of the relationship between the two halves of humanity is the basis for the political order of every nation, and if that order allows autocracy, violence and extortion, a nation will arc in those directions as well.
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In this peculiar political moment, as the powerful promote self-serving realities, hoping to bend perceptions to their will, my colleagues' work to communicate a reality undistorted by political ambition amounts to the last line of defense against autocracy.
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Luna said Maduro's "autocracy" does not appear to have sufficient support among Venezuelans to hold on to power for several decades as Cuba's government has, and it may not be long before the oil-producing country's economy collapses completely.
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It was conceived as a hybrid autocracy in which a ruling elite controls most of the economy and media in the name of the state, but tolerates a limited number of independent but closely watched businesses and media outlets.
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China, too, has advocated autocracy as the way to get results fast, but even Xi Jinping, the head of the Chinese Communist Party, can't match the lightning speed with which Mr. Putin ordered and executed the seizure of Crimea.
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Although he later descended into autocracy, Juan Domingo Perón at his early best embodied what Francis sees as the purpose of statecraft: He created work, integrated the excluded (Perón gave women the vote), and built consensus around core values.
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His Johns Hopkins address lists Vladimir Putin of Russia, Viktor Orban of Hungary, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia as part of this global nexus of corruption and autocracy.
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For many Egyptians, Mr. Morsi's election was their greatest hope for a definitive break with the country's long history of autocracy after decades of harsh and corrupt rule under President Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted in the 2011 uprising.
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He promised a moderate Islamist agenda to steer Egypt into a new democratic era in which autocracy would be replaced by transparent government that respected human rights and revived the fortunes of a powerful Arab state long in decline.
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The first threat is not that we're going to have a Hitler but rather a hybrid of Putin and Berlusconi, with autocracy at the center and a person at the top who gradually cripples the press and the political opposition.
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Of course, they will have to begin with the Trump administration, and the business of keeping it from pushing the country closer to autocracy, extending its kleptocratic corruption and the form of government known as kakistocracy ("rule by the worst").
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Deploying military forces as an armed posse comitatus (Latin for "power of the county") to enforce domestic law is a distinctly un-American idea, and very much the kind of thing that pushed American colonists to rebel against British autocracy.
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" For Miliband, the notion of "the West" is a recoverable one, even more so now "in a world where you can make a reasonable argument that autocracy is on the march and the autocrats look strategic, long-term, and almost pragmatic.
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" Masha Gessen, a Russian journalist known for her opposition to Vladimir Putin who is also a colleague, primed Americans on what to expect from a Trump administration in an essay in The New York Review of Books: "Autocracy: Rules for Survival.
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They say the country is becoming an autocracy and accuse Vucic and his ruling Progressive Party of violently silencing their critics; manipulating election results through voter intimidation, ballot stuffing and vote buying; and neutering the judiciary to protect their own.
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The Americans went on to lose to Europe the next day in Glenagles, Scotland, and in a memorable news conference afterward, Mickelson kicked off his public campaign to change the American Ryder Cup leadership model from an autocracy to a republic.
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The Palestinian grass roots have been weakened over time, she said, not just by the Israelis but also by the authority's own repression, since protesters against the Israeli occupation also sometimes protest against autocracy and the corruption of their own leaders.
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For Pipes, the revolution reflected the gradual breakdown of Russia's distinct autocracy, shaped by a centuries-old tradition of collectivism and patrimonial rule, but McMeekin disputes Pipes's arguments, seeing virtually no difference between the Russian empire and its European rivals.
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Foreign diplomats have occasionally confronted M.B.Z. about his country's lack of democracy, and he has responded by saying something along the lines of "This isn't California": Lack of education and the prevalence of backward religious attitudes make autocracy necessary, he insists.
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And in both health care and tax revenue, Mr. Orban's government has weakened accountability and transparency, much in the way he has curbed the media, the courts and other democratic institutions in creating what critics call a semi-autocracy inside the European Union.
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North Korea, an autocracy run by the same family since 1948, is estimated to have a handful of crude nuclear devices and an impressive array of short- and medium-range missiles, but it closely guards details about its nuclear and missile programs.
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The bottom line: Last week's episode is a reminder that as China seeks greater commercial and strategic influence in Asia in the coming years, frictions between the world's two most populous nations – one a democracy, the other an autocracy – are set to grow.
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There is a tendency at times to try to fit current movements into understandable constructs — some refer to terrorist groups in the Middle East as Islamofascists — but scholars say there is a spectrum that includes right-wing nationalism, illiberal democracy and populist autocracy.
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We should be using our cyber-capabilities to spread the truth about Putin — just how much money he has stolen, just how many lies he has spread, just how many rivals he has jailed or made disappear — all to weaken his autocracy.
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WASHINGTON — When a lawyer for President Trump suggested to senators this week that whatever a president does in pursuit of re-election is inherently in the public's interest, the moment crystallized fears among some of Mr. Trump's critics about creeping presidential autocracy.
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"As Bangladesh slides towards autocracy and repression, as we see journalists around the world being persecuted and murdered, these actions serve also to highlight the plight of many alongside Shahidul who are tortured, imprisoned, abused or disappeared by their governments," she says.
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Related: Former Maldives President Manhandled into Court then Denied Bail on 'Terrorism' Offences It's marketed as a paradise "where sands are as white as the smiles of the locals," but the Maldives appears to be descending ever closer towards a return to autocracy.
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Because once any problem that the country has before you took power is explained by the corruption of your political enemy, and any attempt to resist your rule as an illegitimate betrayal of the will of the people, the path to autocracy is laid.
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Legitimate criticism of, and disagreement with Government action is the inalienable right of every citizen in a democracy, and if that is what Shahidul Alam is being prosecuted for then it is a worrying sign that the state in Bangladesh is slipping towards autocracy.
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Mr Rees-Mogg has argued that Britain's vote to leave the European Union is "as worthy for celebration as victory at Waterloo or the Glorious Revolution", and defined Brexit as "a victory of British liberty over Bonapartist autocracy, and for free nations over foreign tyranny".
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The Favourite and The Death of Stalin deserve your attention, according to our film critic Alison Willmore: "If these movies feel like indirect answers to the problem of how to satirize Trump, it's because they're reminders that there's nothing new about the impulses toward autocracy."
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Mounk, who grew up in Germany in the 80s and 90s, attracted attention in late 2016 for co-authoring an article that found people in the West—and young people in particular—are less enamored with democracy and more open to autocracy than ever.
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Thomas Friedman got the ball rolling in The New York Times last November, praising bin Salam as the Middle East's great hope, a tireless reformer leading an "Arab Spring, Saudi style" which would modernize the oil-rich autocracy and promote a more tolerant Islam.
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"A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, From Tahrir Square to ISIS," by Robert F. Worth, tells the story of the 2011 Arab Spring and its slide into autocracy and civil war better than I ever could have imagined its being told.
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The various wings of the Democratic Party may disagree on a bunch of things, but the one thing that unites us is the realization that the right wants nothing more than a white supremacist autocracy that would rather see liberals dead or in chains.
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The Palmyra news also has left the United States and other Western and Arab opponents of Mr. Assad in the awkward position of welcoming it while still insisting that the Syrian president's autocracy and suppression of dissent was the underlying cause of the Syria war.
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Palestinian analysts have long noted the increasing autocracy of the octogenarian Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in his struggle to suppress real and perceived rivals, and the competition between his Fatah-led Palestinian Authority and Hamas has led to waves of tit-for-tat arrests.
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China's autocracy, precisely because of its successes, could face a crisis of legitimacy as social, ethnic and religious tensions intensify in both Han and Uighur areas, especially in the event of any further slowdowns in economic growth that thwart the rising expectations of its people.
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That is already clear, as is the fact that Trump's embrace of Putin was not some weird whim but reflected a fundamental alignment of values around bigotry, racism, homophobia, anti-intellectualism, calculated religious absolutism, 21st-century big-data autocracy and hatred of the media.
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" Senator John McCain has urged the Trump administration, which has shown little concern about the global rise of autocracy, to "send a strong message that the United States is committed to promoting democracy, human rights and rule of law in Cambodia and throughout the world.
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"Because they do have politics in Iran and because the Iranian autocracy is relatively sophisticated, they can sometimes see that fessing up to difficult admissions is better than continuing to lie," Ibish added, citing Iran's eventual acknowledgement of responsibility in the Ukrainian plane incident.
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" The theme for this year's two-day summit starting April 2 will be "Truth to Power," which organizers say will "spotlight global issues and women who are taking a stand against corruption, autocracy, sexism, educational inequality, climate change, harassment and more, despite the repercussions.
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Though conventional wisdom suggests that an autocracy should be more resistant to political upheaval (Xi won't have to face his people at the polls in the foreseeable future while Trump is up for reelection next year) — both will have to pay a heavy price.
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Twenty other GMA filings have been made by NGOs-of-conscience, naming officials from the dregs of worldwide autocracy as culprits in everything from killing their own people to fleecing their own citizens to propping up their despotic regimes — and paying off allied oligarchs.
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Empowering a set of political elites to overturn the judgment of the people on the question of the general fitness of an elected official takes a large step toward autocracy and is all too reminiscent of the privilege claimed by generals in polities subject to repeated coups.
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Increasingly diverse green campaigners argue there's Only so much oil in the ground; Nigerian fuel pricing edged closer to something sensible (Na oil); and our Europe section asked whether the oil-rich autocracy of Azerbaijan can modernise (Azerbaijani diva Nigar Jamal says Herhalde, or "I suppose").
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Trump's presidency is already starting to resemble the one imagined by David Frum in his March article for The Atlantic, "How to Build an Autocracy," where he described a global "democratic recession" in terms that intentionally evoked Trump: Worldwide, the number of democratic states has diminished.
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Naito Konan, a prominent Japanese Sinologist, noted in the 1910s and 1920s that before the enlightened autocracy of the Song era, China had for many decades been ruled by an informally hereditary aristocracy whose emperors also filled top government posts and controlled the civil service examinations.
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It is no accident or coincidence that the Framers established Congress first in the Constitution as Article I. This is because unlike a monarchy or autocracy where the "King is Law," in a democratic republic, the "Law is King," and no man is above the law.
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And a really enterprising confidant might have intimated that a sensational military operation could scan as a cynical effort to divert attention from impeachment, as well as an example of the same brand of self-interested autocracy with which the House's articles of impeachment charge the president.
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But it's deeply disturbing in America in 2016 to see people discussing how to defend against tyranny, or how to survive autocracy, to see people openly pondering the moral dilemma between compromise and resistance using language similar to that in World War II. Are they alarmists, exaggerating the threat?
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As a former boss of mine who served on the appropriations committee was known for saying, "Israel is like an aircraft carrier of democracy, freedom and strength in a sea of autocracy, theocracy, and terrorist-challenged monarchies" and that our aid to Israel is, in reality, a strategic bargain.
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" If we are to avoid the fate that ultimately befell Rome, Watts cautions, it is "vital for all of us to understand how Rome's republic worked, what it achieved and why, after nearly five centuries, its citizens ultimately turned away from it and toward the autocracy of Augustus.
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This will all cost money, and that is where philanthropic organizations, investors and others who say they still care about democracy are going to have to stop wringing their hands over Trump and the global rise of autocracy and start directing their dollars toward a beleaguered free press.
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"We are living through the most dangerous challenge to the free government of the United States that anyone alive has encountered," wrote David Frum, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, in the final sentences of "How to Build an Autocracy," his widely read article in The Atlantic.
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" Corn's opposition to Trump is well documented in his articles, a book he wrote, and on Twitter where, this month, he declared: "Trump has a far greater affinity for the leader of a corrupt and repressive autocracy than he does for any leader of a liberal Western democracy.
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The closest we get to calls for revolution or overthrow are celebrations of the Chinese model of dictatorship from both Chinese and Western admirers who see a nation that, unlike a vetocratic America, can just do things, with the implicit idea being that America could use a turn toward autocracy.
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"This Parliament is the creation of the security services and the financial elites that have bought into Egypt's new autocracy," said Amr Hamzawy, a political scientist who was elected to the last Parliament, in 2012, but who left Egypt last year for the United States, citing harassment and fear of imprisonment.
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Coming from me this may sound self-interested, but please try to look over my obvious and admitted conflict to see that the press, even with all its flaws — particularly those exposed during this election — is one of the last lines of defense against corruption and a slide toward autocracy.
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Protestors like those gathered in Altamira have seized on Maduro's latest show of autocracy and the country's collapsing economy to mobilize a movement that now extends beyond the typically wealthy opposition leaders to those upon whose support Maduro and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela have long relied — the country's poor.
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Senate Republicans just banned Elizabeth Warren from talking about Jeff Sessions Jackie Kennedy's strange, elegant accent, explained by linguists How to stop an autocracy Polls like this are sensitive to changes in wording and can't tell us how respondents really interpret the question, so it's worth being cautious when reading the results.
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To give an analogy: When Italy abandoned proportional representation in 1923 by adopting the Acerbo Law, it did so to try to engineer landslide victories for Benito Mussolini's fascists; but it doesn't follow that any country that doesn't use proportional representation (like the US or the UK or Canada) automatically is an autocracy.
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"We have a rise of authoritarianism around the world, a real rise of autocracy," Schiff said, adding, "This is a real danger, a present danger for the United States, this rise of authoritarianism, and we need to better understand it, and we need to figure out a better strategy to counter it."
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Similar to the tech moguls of today, the monopolists of a century ago "liked to portray themselves as part of a progressive movement, striving toward a better age," Wu writes, even if the endgame they were pursuing — essentially "pure economic autocracy" — was a direct rebuke to the foundational values of the republic.
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The Interpreter The recent referendum in Turkey, in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed a narrow majority of votes to expand his presidential authority, is the latest example of a puzzling phenomenon: Democratically elected leaders who triumph in elections even as they move toward autocracy by undermining checks and balances and consolidating power.
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The novel opens in 58 B.C., with Cicero driven into exile by the machinations of his enemies, and Julius Caesar heading off to conquer Gaul; it climaxes in the wake of Caesar's assassination, when Cicero briefly but gloriously defied the deepening shadows of military autocracy and paid a terrible price for his show of courage.
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Meanwhile, it should come as no surprise that Putin, who has long had a foreign policy goal of weakening and discrediting the E.U. — in order to diminish it as a vibrant alternative to his kleptocratic, nationalist autocracy or as an inspiration for former Soviet satellites like Ukraine — has encouraged the rise of anti-E.
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Iran is not a democracy, in other words, but rather an autocracy with democratic elements — a legacy of its 1979 revolution, in which revolutionary leaders with drastically different visions and little governing experience slapped together a convoluted mess of a political system that was somehow meant to be both a democracy and a theocracy.
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If these are too mainstream, you can sign up to Orthodox Autocracy (the 'Official Nationality' ideology of Nicholas I of Russia) with shades of Dixieblr, Tsarism (Russian monarchism), Evangelical Distributism (an Orthodox Christian 'middle path' between capitalism and socialism), Sedevacantism (minority traditionalist Catholics), or perhaps Falangism (should you wish to identify as a Spanish fascist, and a Franco supporter).
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The growing danger is that the tech race could become the primary battleground in a struggle between democracy and autocracy – and between China and the U.S. The dangers of a technological cold war, a zero-sum contest for global dominance that ultimately separates Chinese and U.S. tech sectors from each other and divides up the world, are increasing.
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To convert a democracy into an autocracy requires disabling an enormous, distributed infrastructure: legislators who have to respond to constituents and lobbyists, judges with reputations to uphold, bureaucrats who are responsible for the missions of their departments, and the tens of millions of people who have to carry out their jobs in order that the government and society function.
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Creativity and flexibility are required in U.S. policy to learn from its mistakes in its handling of the Arab Spring in 85033 and to build alliances from the bottom-up — with ordinary Lebanese and Iraqis who share democratic aspirations and want their nations to reflect the stability of Western democracies, not the theocratic autocracy of Iran.
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Telling 22019 billion people — 20 percent of the planet — in the modern era that they will have no say in and will not be able to change their leader for perhaps the next 25 years is the actual creation of an all-powerful autocracy, a throwback to kings who ruled for life (but often lost their heads).
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On For the Fallen, the band's first full-length, Willetts pulls from his usual box of lyrical weaponry to deliver a warning, a testament, and a rallying cry—juxtaposing the horrors of war and our collapsing society with more personal reflections on death and mourning, and with the need to resist the creeping tendrils of autocracy and repression.
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The outcome of the three-day referendum crystallized what analysts say has become increasingly evident in recent years: Mr. el-Sisi, 64, is building a brand of authoritarianism that has not only demolished the democratic gains of the 2011 uprising, but surpasses the autocracy of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian leader who was forced from power during the revolt.
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He wrote: The growing danger is that the tech race could become the primary battleground in a struggle between democracy and autocracy — and between China and the U.S. The dangers of a technological Cold War, a zero-sum contest for global dominance that ultimately separates Chinese and U.S. tech sectors from each other and divides up the world, are increasing.
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Among President Trump's major accomplishments is the booming industry in books about him, his administration, the state of democracy in America, the rise of autocracy in America and abroad, the reasons for his rise, the bases of his support, the state of the Republican Party, the state of his mental health or lack thereof, the chaos in his White House and so on.
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Weaknesses in Democracy In a recent Interpreter column, Amanda Taub writes: The recent referendum in Turkey, in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed a narrow majority of votes to expand his presidential authority, is the latest example of a puzzling phenomenon: Democratically elected leaders who triumph in elections even as they move toward autocracy by undermining checks and balances and consolidating power.
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In comments to Hyperallergic, ancient historian and classical numismatist Liv Yarrow noted the absence of SPQR coins during the period of the Republic and its later use as a means of justifying autocracy while harkening back to an earlier age: SPQR is wholly absent from the Republican [era] coins series (a fact I had to spend some time double checking).
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Take a leap of faith that China will change course, that its Communist Party will shed autocracy and its high-tech grip on its billion-plus citizens and reform -- or go with what they know and can almost trust by backing the US. A return to the days or us-or-them The fear is, like the very fragments of data the decision hinges on, the choice could be binary.
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Progressives understand how automated autocracy can threaten participatory democracy: Google recently threatened the New America Foundation's funding to force it to fire Barry Lynn and its anti-monopoly researchers for supporting the EU's $3 billion fine against Google; Facebook and Google have sparked widespread outrage as the prime purveyors of selling highly profitable fake news in last year's election cycle; and Amazon is seen unfairly undermining competition, and threatening jobs and communities.
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And most worrying to me is that they're exporting this digital autocracy, and so they're not only using technology to keep their own population more firmly constrained, but they're helping other autocratic regimes around the country, around the world, doing the same thing, and this points up frankly the broadest concern I have, which is the rise of authoritarianism, at a time when our president is making common cause with the autocrats.
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Parliament, which has been stacked with supporters of the president, approved with amendments Tuesday by a significant margin, with only 22 lawmakers out of 554 voting against the measures, according to the AP. "Egypt's autocracy is shifting into overdrive to re-establish the 'President-for-Life' model, beloved by dictators in the region and despised by their citizens," Michael Page, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
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He told an American bishop: Despite state atheism, Soviet society was able to preserve the Christian roots of our society and avoid those ruinous processes which are now unfolding in Europe and America But as the country ponders how to remember this year's centenary of the Bolshevik revolution, in which one form of Russian autocracy was replaced by a (statistically at least) far more brutal one, the Patriarch recently acknowledged that a "celebration" would not be appropriate.
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Critics of neoconservatism might argue that this preoccupation with ideological purity has also contributed to its policy failings — that in the runup to invading Iraq, neoconservatives were more focused on high-minded arguments about democracy promotion and the nature of Arab autocracy than they were on the nitty-gritty of Iraqi sectarian politics or post-conflict reconstruction; that after Iraq collapsed, neoconservatives remained too committed to their ideals to ask whether some of those ideals had led them astray.
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The case for tragedy is made this month by David Frum in his book "Trumpocracy," which builds on his year-old Atlantic essay, "How to Build An Autocracy" and amplifies its central theme: that our president is a corrupt authoritarian, that his party has prostituted itself to wield unfettered power, and that this is an hour of great peril for the American republic, which teeters on the lip of the precipice that Erdogan's Turkey and Putin's Russia have toppled over.
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The native peoples do not simply feel violated, they are not simply fighting for their rights as peoples as they have for hundreds of years, they are not battling just to maintain their homes and to keep the juggernaut of the petrochemical moloch and oil pipeline out of their backyards, they are not merely shouting for environmental justice, they are not merely defending their souls against the pale inflections of a fabulously belligerent military autocracy we call America; they are fighting for the balance of the Universe.
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In my book, I hope to remind readers of classics (like Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America," Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" and Daniel J. Boorstin's "The Image") that shed light on some of the larger social and political dynamics at work in the age of Trump, as well as some lesser known works by writers like Victor Klemperer and Stefan Zweig that provide some historical perspective on how autocracy, nationalism and the hatred of outsiders can swiftly take root in a democracy.
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