authoritarianism
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“It seems the protest wave has come and gone,” Jeremy Wallace, sociology professor at Cornell and the author of Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China, said in a phone interview.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2022
"Authoritarianism" is sometimes used, which may be accurate but is unspecific, or the even vaguer term "populism."
From Salon • Jan. 14, 2022
Authoritarianism, on the other hand, is infantilizing: We should not have to feel any negative emotions; difficult subjects should be kept from us.
From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2021
Authoritarianism, as it is operationalized here using five questions that were reduced from the original version of the scale, likely does not fit neatly into a particular political party.
From Scientific American • Nov. 5, 2020
Democracy ensures “broad protection of civil liberties, including freedom of speech, press, and association,” as Levitsky and Lucan A. Way outline in “Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2018
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