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Authoritarianism: Authoritarianism is a form of governance characterized by centralized power, limited political freedoms, and strict control over society, maintaining control through coercion or manipulation, restricting individual rights and democratic processes. See also Democracy, Society, Tyranny, Dictatorship, State (Polity).
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Ivan Krastev on Authoritarianism - Dictionary of Arguments

Krastev I 196
Authoritarianism/Krastev/Holmes: (...) authoritarianism, unlike communism, is not an ideology shareable across borders. It is an oppressive, non-consultative and arbitrary style of rule.
>Governance
, >Communism.
The concentration of all power in the hands of a single lifetime president is profoundly illiberal, but it does not constitute an anti-liberal ideology confronting Western liberalism on the plane of ideas. The same can be said of press censorship and the incarceration of regime critics.
>Power.
Russia/China/Krastev: What unites Putin and Xi is a general belief in the ultimate value of political stability, hostility to the democratic idea that wielders of power should be time- or term-limited, and general mistrust of political competition, accompanied by a firm conviction that the US is covertly plotting regime change for their countries. Beyond these commonalities, Putin and Xi have no shared conception of what a good society looks like. Their actions are driven by national
Krastev I 197
interest and national dreams, shaped by pride and resentment at the humiliations inflicted by Western hands, rather than by a universally exportable ideology defining a shared world-view.
>International relations.

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Krastev I
Ivan Krastev
Stephen Holmes
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning London 2019


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