Chapter 6: Authoritarian Regimes

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Authoritarian rule
in a sense, has existed since the beginning of human government.
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Corruption
is a concept closely related to patron- clientelism and patron- client networks.
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Russia
Statism, or the tendency to trust in the state for security and provision of basic needs, for example, emerged in ________ after centuries of foreign invasion and oppression.
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Authoritarian regimes
________ limit their ability to organize and express dissenting views to preserve the status quo.
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Civil society
describes all the various organized groups people choose to join for the sake of a common interest.
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Democracy
(as defined in the previous chapter) is a political system that has existed only since the twentieth century.
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key positions of power
Rulers in authoritarian systems can place people into ________ with official authority, which can often be used (or abused) for personal gain.
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trend of democratization
Despite the ________ across many parts of the world in recent decades, authoritarianism has proven to be highly resilient and resistant to change.
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Totalitarian regimes
attempt to control and dominate every aspect of their peoples lives, including their career choices, family life, and their political and religious beliefs.
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democratic regimes
While ________ have free and independent media outlets that may investigate and criticize the conduct and policy decisions of those in power, authoritarian regimes use a variety of mechanisms to restrict the independence of the media to report news that could be problematic for the government.
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tactics of coercion
can include surveillance of perceived dissidents, as China employs through government agents who follow the regimes critics, and Internet monitors who track peoples activities.
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Authoritarian regimes
are distinguished by the way they invest political authority into a small group of individuals who exercise this authority without any constitutional responsibility to the public.
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**Statism**
or the tendency to trust in the state for security and provision of basic needs, for example, emerged in Russia after centuries of foreign invasion and oppression.
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**Coercion**
 which essentially means force, to compel people to submit to the regime.
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independent civil society
that can organize freely is a critical component of liberal democracy, as it allows the people to express their interests, organize to call attention to issues of concern, and demand state action at times. 
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Power
is the ability to compel or otherwise motivate people to take actions that they otherwise would not. 
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Authority
involves an official position with a defined role and jurisdiction that the state has entrusted an individual with.
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**Personality Cult**
More common to totalitarianism, some authoritarian regimes will attempt to portray the leader as some sort of near perfected version of the nation’s aspirations, embodying the wisdom, strength, and spirit of the people more generally.
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**Personal Rule**
Systems based on personal rule do not possess any clear rules or regime boundaries to constrain the ruler.
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**Military Rule**
Military rule usually comes as the result of a **coup d’état** (sometimes called a coup, for short), which occurs when the military of a particular state decides to remove the civil authorities from within and take control of the state itself.
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**One-Party Rule**
 In a **one-party state**, also known as a **dominant-party system**, only one political party is either legally or practically able to compete for and exercise political power.
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**theocracy**
is rule by God, but practically, the power is held by religious ­leaders, and so a theocratic regime entrusts rule of the state to clerical religious authorities simultaneously with their religious role. 
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