Copilot
Your everyday AI companion
About 441,000 results
  1. Authoritarianism, principle of blind submission to authority, as opposed to individual freedom of thought and action. In government, authoritarianism denotes any political system that concentrates power in the hands of a leader or a small elite that is not constitutionally responsible to the body of the people.

    www.britannica.com/topic/authoritarianism

    authoritarianism ( countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 authoritarianisms ) A form of government in which the governing body has absolute, or almost absolute, control. Typically this control is maintained by force, and little heed is paid to public opinion or the judicial system.

    ejje.weblio.jp/content/authoritarianism
  2. People also ask
    authoritarian authoritarian adj. characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; -- of governments or rulers; as, an authoritarian regime. Syn: autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannical.
    As nouns the difference between authoritarian and dictatorship is that authoritarian is one who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority while dictatorship is a type of government where absolute sovereignty is allotted to an individual or a small clique. As an adjective authoritarian is of, or relating to, absolute obedience to an authority.
    The main difference between totalitarian and authoritarian is that totalitarian governments exert total control over the lives and freedoms of citizens, while authoritarian governments give certain individual freedoms to the citizens. 1. “Benito Mussolini colored” By Martianmister and Vps – Unknown, Public Domain) via Commons Wikimedia
  3. See more
    See more
    See all on Wikipedia
    See more

    Authoritarianism - Wikipedia

    Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of democracy and political plurality. It involves the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in the rule of law, separation of powers, and democratic voting. Political scientists have created many … See more

    Authoritarianism is characterized by highly concentrated and centralized government power maintained by political repression and the exclusion of potential or supposed challengers by … See more

    According to Yale professor Juan José Linz there a three main types of political regimes today: democracies, totalitarian regimes and, … See more

    Post-World War II anti-authoritarianism
    Both World War II (ending in 1945) and the Cold War (ending in 1991) resulted in the replacement of … See more

    Typologies image

    In 2010, Dani Rodrik wrote that democracies outperform autocracies in terms of long-term economic growth, economic stability, … See more

    There is no one consensus definition of authoritarianism, but several annual measurements are attempted, including Freedom House's … See more

    • Quotations related to Authoritarianism at Wikiquote See more

    Wikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license
    Feedback
  4. Authoritarianism | Definition, History, Examples, & Facts

  5. Why Is Authoritarianism Surging Worldwide? : 1A : NPR

  6. Who likes authoritarianism, and how do they want to change their ...

  7. Authoritarianism - Oxford Reference

  8. A Study Guide to Authoritarianism - The Atlantic

  9. Understanding authoritarianism - Yale Jackson School of Global …

  10. The psychological causes and societal consequences of …

  11. Authoritarianism | SpringerLink

  12. Authoritarianism (Chapter 11) - The Cambridge Handbook of …