In Iran, Shiite radicals deposed a socially permissive autocracy and began building a repressive Islamic theocracy.
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Accepting it confers on this president or any president the powers of autocracy.
It helps, too, that even for an untrammelled if benign autocracy, Qatar's command structure is slim.
No mitigating mention of the tsar's own weak and incompetent, if not deliberately murderous, autocracy.
Arab autocracy means that such feelings have yet to express themselves in political terms.
But left-wingers have no monopoly on elected autocracy, as Alberto Fujimori showed in Peru in the 1990s.
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"We will not allow you, your highness, to take Kuwait into the abyss of autocracy, " he said.
"We will not allow you, your highness, to take Kuwait into the abyss of autocracy, " he warned.
But what does this mean, in practice, in a country with such a long history of autocracy?
Now across much of the world the state is trumping the market and autocracy is triumphing over democracy.
But if it is right to engage economically, it is also right to condemn Mr Putin's illiberal autocracy.
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Chinese arguments amount to a boast that their model of 21st-century autocracy is proved superior by economic success.
Faced with this expansionist autocracy, conservatives say, America should respond as Ronald Reagan did to the Soviet Union.
The Party is not simply an account of how the party succeeds in ruling through its mechanisms of autocracy.
Yet, as you look at it, some in the West would believe, you know, what's the attraction of autocracy?
Rather, Kagan says, autocrats believe in autocracy, in their interests, not universal values.
Russia, of course, has had an almost uninterrupted history of autocracy and dictatorship.
"This isn't local democracy, this is municipal autocracy, " he told the annual conference of the National Local Government Network.
It may also mark the start of a political degeneration that sees the country slide towards nationalism, autocracy or something nastier.
But what Mr Wade's supporters praise as his vision and statesmanship, his critics see as a tendency towards megalomania or autocracy.
Egypt was an autocracy with a tiny elite and a huge underclass.
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Saudi Arabia's very different, but similarly stifling, autocracy has also met a growing barrage of reformist petitions with signs of unusual openness.
Threatening to chuck Mr Orban out of the EPP could be the best way of steering him off the path towards autocracy.
Mr Vieira led the country towards a market economy and a multi-party system, but was accused of crony capitalism, corruption and autocracy.
But autocracy, cronyism and dishonesty exist in most parts of the globe.
Mr Fujimori built his autocracy on the support of the armed forces.
In Russia it meant that the old, absolute autocracy had to change.
With language that recalls the civil rights movement, he will back peaceful demonstrations for democracy and contrast them with violent actions for autocracy.
However, there are signs that Mr Karimov may be thinking that his autocracy is not providing a solution to all the country's problems.
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