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authoritarianism

noun as in absolutism

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Even some moderate right-wingers hope this trial might finally draw a line, but with such different definitions of authoritarianism, polarisation could still deepen.

From BBC

Critics say he is now pulling the country back into authoritarianism by expanding the military’s involvement in civilian institutions.

Tech firms were beginning to resemble the "politically directed companies of China," he argued, despite their criticism of Chinese authoritarianism.

From BBC

In this context, the helpers I’m thinking of are those people, here in the U.S. and around the world, who have faced authoritarianism, endured it and ultimately helped defeat it.

From Salon

Why should Democrats have assumed that newly naturalized citizens would be progressive, rather than importing, out of pure habit, the machismo and caudillismo of Guatemala or Honduras, or the authoritarianism of South Asia?

From Salon

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