authoritarian state
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authoritarian
adjective
uk/ˌɔː.θɒr.ɪˈteə.ri.ən/us/əˌθɔːr.əˈter.i.ən/
demanding that people obey completely and refusing to allow them freedom to act as ...
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state
noun
uk/steɪt/us/steɪt/
a condition or way of being that exists at a ...
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As a result, union members are far better off than workers in the informal and agricultural sectors, and they, too, back theauthoritarianstate.
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It could therefore coexist with a highlyauthoritarianstate.
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Like the 45ers they rejected a consensual public and the idea of anauthoritarianstate, and argued for a climate of discussion and conflict.
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Elsewhere, by way of contrast, democracy became a means of protection against a centralised andauthoritarianstate.
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The implied result was anauthoritarianstate, the bureaucratic machine having usurped the role of the architect.
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Yet in the early 1990s, theauthoritarianstatebegan to crumble under pressures for political reform.
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If we win, we will have anauthoritarianstatewithout opposition: those are our principles.
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There are two reasons why the internal divisions that exist in civil society make it difficult for local organisations to challenge theauthoritarianstateand to facilitate democratic political systems.
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For the great dictators civil society was swiftly eliminated and the family was formally exalted, but the crucial relationships became those between theauthoritarianstateand regimented individuals.
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It is fully prepared to serve as the foundation for any democratic process that will emerge once theauthoritarianstatebegins to dissipate, as it inevitably will.
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Civil society has shown its resilience and capacity to resist the encroachments of theauthoritarianstate, as during the colonial era.
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This did not however open up new channels or provide opportunities for excessive corrupt political financing, because there was no distinction between theauthoritarianstateand the party.
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This kind of double jeopardy is another mark of theauthoritarianstate.
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We are in a parliamentary democracy, not anauthoritarianstate, and people are concerned about this matter, as are other political parties.
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The 4 million unemployed know of no land beyond the frontiers of theauthoritarianstate.
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It has become a non-parliamentary country, which means that it has become anauthoritarianstate.
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It is precisely this idea of an "extramundane authority" that is intolerable to anauthoritarianstate.
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These symbols are perhaps not as contradictory as they first appear, each reflecting as it does a facet of anauthoritarianstate.
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That way would destroy, in effect, all opposition, and would set up in the end anauthoritarianstate.
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If not, we should be living in a completelyauthoritarianstate, in a dictatorship.
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