Like the Castros and other communist dictators, he used economic redistribution as a pretext for authoritarianism.
Before Tunisia, everyone said that authoritarianism, powered by China and Russia, was on the march.
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The ugly authoritarianism of Vladimir Putin's Kremlin and Russia's hydrocarbon-fuelled diplomatic bolshiness are now well documented.
So far, his career, in keeping with post-communist Russia, has been marked by cronyism and authoritarianism.
It is also part and parcel of Mr Putin's shift from liberal democracy towards authoritarianism.
This could give freer rein to what critics call Mr Erdogan's tilt towards authoritarianism.
Almost 30 years ago, Argentina rejected authoritarianism after horrible years of repression.
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Under Putin, the brief Russian democratic experience vanished, and a new kind of authoritarianism emerged.
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Second, it sets him firmly in the socially conservative camp, displaying even a dash of authoritarianism.
New kinds of authoritarianism may be just as likely as the flowering of democracy.
Countries like Nicaragua and Panama, which are themselves in the process of shedding the yoke of authoritarianism.
Instead of being democratic or even becoming democratic, Russia is daily sinking deeper into authoritarianism and lawlessness.
The end of authoritarianism is not synonymous with the disappearance of dissension or the demise of fundamentalism.
At the time, Indonesia, which acted promptly and decisively, seemed to show that authoritarianism could work wonders.
Which doesn't mean there's nostalgia for the former Soviet Union or a risk of a return to authoritarianism.
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Such authoritarianism is particularly good at generating, along with the growth, the negative consequences of expansion, corruption included.
But that also meant the rise of hierarchies, inequality, oppression, authoritarianism, and the other plagues of modern life.
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Every one of those measures is a nonsense and worse: unworkable combinations of authoritarianism, censorship, and wishful thinking.
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They accused President Saakashvili of corruption and authoritarianism and demanded he stand down.
As Mr Sen sees it, many of the Commonwealth's Asian members are poised somewhere between authoritarianism and ideal democracy.
In Latin America, Hugo Chavez leads a movement characterised by authoritarianism and repression.
Over the past 30 years, freedom has replaced authoritarianism in dozens of nations in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
But since then he has displayed ever-increasing authoritarianism, with tighter control over elections, the media and all branches of government.
Messrs Bremmer and Halper are actually less bullish about the new authoritarianism than the titles of their books might suggest.
America was founded, after all, to raise the principle of equality up high, and to defy the authoritarianism of Europe.
Menem was accused of authoritarianism, as the executive power gained ground at the expense of the legislative and the judiciary.
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In fact, in the last several years, at the very minimum, it's been a march backwards toward a kind of authoritarianism.
It also means a world in which American values the values of liberty and opportunity continue to prevail over those of oppression and authoritarianism.
Ravitch has confirmed many of my suspicions, though I was not aware at quite the extent of authoritarianism in the current movement.
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