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| | Dictatorship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Dictatorship, in contemporary usage, refers to absolute rule by a leadership (usually one dictator) unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state. | | | Dictators in single-party states, as opposed to military juntas, often create single-party states without elections, or with rigged or heavily biased ones. | | | Nicos Poulantzas, The crisis of the dictatorships: Portugal, Greece, Spain 1976 |
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| | Cavaignac surrenders the dictatorship, and is appointed president of the council. | | | Two years later, free elections ushered in former Prime Minister Nicephore SOGLO as president, marking the first successful transfer of power in Africa from a dictatorship to a democracy. | | | The Council of Europe has barred Belarus from membership since 1997 for undemocratic voting irregularities in the November 1996 constitutional referendum and parliament by-elections. |
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| | Dictatorship Writing @ QuiltPlace.com (Quilt Place) |
| | Dictators in single-party states, as opposed to military juntas, often create single-party states without elections, or with rigged or heavily biased ones. | | | Nicos Poulantzas, The crisis of the dictatorships: Portugal, Greece, Spain 1976 | | | These regimes often usher in a period of calm after civil war or economic hard times. |
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| | Dictatorship, in contemporary usage, refers to absolute rule by a leadership (usually one dictator) unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state. | | | Dictators in single-party states, as opposed to military juntas, often create single-party states without elections, or with rigged or heavily biased ones. | | | In Classical usage, a dictator referred to a constitutional extraordinary chief magistrate without a colleague in Ancient Rome, who temporarily received absolute power during times of emergency. |
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| | Parliament of Australia:Senate:Publications - Can Responsible Government Surive In Australia? |
| | The power of a prime minister to call an early election when public opinion is, perhaps temporarily, in his favour is a very great political advantage, and a quite unjustifiable one. | | | The authors of the American Constitution were almost obsessive in their desire to have checks on executive power, and they created a system of division between executive, legislative and judicial power which is still unique. | | | The constitutional tradition and the rule of law are much more firmly established there than they were in the Weimar Republic. |
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| | The Globalist Global Politics -- Is America Turning Into An Elective Dictatorship? |
| | One thing is clear: If a president can wage wars at will, in defiance of the provisions of the Constitution that give the major responsibility for initiating war to Congress, then the United States will no longer be a constitutional, democratic republic. | | | Two factors distinguish a democratic republic from a “democratic dictatorship:” The rule of law (rather than the rule of the majority) — and checks and balances among independent branches of the government. | | | A growing number of Americans — as well as outside observers — are wondering if the United States is becoming an elected dictatorship. |
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http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/printStoryId.aspx?StoryId=2696
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| | Is America Turning Into An Elective Dictatorship? by Michael Lind - The Globalist > > Global Politics |
| | One thing is clear: If a president can wage wars at will, in defiance of the provisions of the Constitution that give the major responsibility for initiating war to Congress, then the United States will no longer be a constitutional, democratic republic. | | | Two factors distinguish a democratic republic from a “democratic dictatorship:” The rule of law (rather than the rule of the majority) — and checks and balances among independent branches of the government. | | | A growing number of Americans — as well as outside observers — are wondering if the United States is becoming an elected dictatorship. |
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| | This majority creates the elective dictatorship and the potential for tyranny (Lord Hailsham). | | | With the power of the Lords curtailed by the 1911 Act, and with the Prerogative of the Crown stolen (as we shall see) every Cabinet, headed by the Prime Minister becomes Sovereign and the division of powers is almost destroyed. | | | By persuading the people to vote for a party GOVERNMENT (with a programme of works) instead of a free independent PARLIAMENT (with a duty to protect liberty) a government majority is automatically installed inside Parliament. |
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| | It is the use of the first person in this sentence which I find quite disturbing, the implication is that Andrew Marr on a whim could swing a general election, suggesting that the UK is not in an elective dictatorship, but a media one. |
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| | Dictatorship |
| | Dictatorship, in contemporary usage, refers to absolute rule by a leadership (usually one dictator) unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state. | | | We all hope nothing happens to Arlen Specter, the Republican head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, cause he might be all that stands between us and a full blown dictatorship in this country. | | | We learned yesterday from the Boston Globe that Bush is openly claiming that he can make his own laws and ignore others. |
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| | Power Line: A fine madness |
| | We're not in danger of becoming a dictatorship if the most sinister administration language Weisberg can try to scare us with comes from a Supreme Court opinion. | | | If it's false, the Supreme Court has the opportunity to so rule. | | | According to Weisberg, the Bush administration's legal position regarding FISA entails "an elective dictatorship, governed not by three counterpoised branches of government, but by a secretive, possibly benign, awesomely powerful king." |
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| | LibertyFilter»Blog Archive » Chilling Summation of Bush’s Domestic Spying and “War on ... |
| | But according to the Yoo memo, the president can define war however he chooses, and remain "at war" for as long as he chooses. | | | Then he immediately started using it to avoid the law. | | | In the weeks after 9/11, while America and the world were grieving, Bush built a legal rationale for a dictatorship. |
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http://www.libertyfilter.com/archives/2005/12/21/chilling-summation-of-bushs-domestic-spying-and-war-on-terror
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| | LA36220 - CONSTITUTIONAL LAW |
| | Basic doctrines of the Constitution of the United Kingdom 2: Rule of Law; Rule of Law or 'Elective Dictatorship'? | | | meaning of the 'rule of law' and its significance; the rule of law and parliamentary sovereignty; allegations of the existence of an elective dictatorship examined; Human Rights Act and the rule of law. |
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| | With his command over his party, the House of Representatives, the Governor-General and soon the Senate, here was I worrying over the separation of powers and elective dictatorship. | | | Now I can be relaxed and comfortable, secure in the knowledge that the Prime Minister will act 'soberly, sensibly, and wisely', and that any lapses will naturally result in his being overruled by the Queen under section 59 of our constitution, hopefully. |
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| | Elective dictatorship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Lords may or may not also approve the legislation, however a combination of judicious compromise from the government, combined with the overarching threat of the Parliament Act means that most legislation also manages to get through the Lords. | | | It describes the state in which Parliament is dominated by the government of the day. | | | The phrase elective dictatorship (also called executive dominance in political science) was coined by the former Lord Chancellor, Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, in an academic paper of the same name written in 1976. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_dictatorship
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| | It is ironic that this term, coined by Tory grandee Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone to describe the Labour Government in 1976, should be used to criticise the programme of Lords reform. | | | Even with a fraction of its membership elected, a chamber that has been mostly selected by an appointments committee will amount to nothing more than a supreme quango. | | | Tony Blair has been portrayed as an instinctive centraliser bent on creating an "elective dictatorship". |
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| | Dictatorship Report @ Fburg.com (F'burg) |
| | Nicos Poulantzas, The crisis of the dictatorships: Portugal, Greece, Spain 1976 | | | The cultures created by many dictatorships foster what has been termed the "cult of personality", where not only is the media controlled by the state, but serves to glorify it and its leader. | | | Without it, they usually disintegrate or are completely ineffectual, such as the Bolshevik government of Russia shortly after it came to power. |
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| | dictatorship in TutorGig Encyclopedia |
| | 'Dictatorship', in contemporary usage, refers to absolute rule by a leadership (usually a single dictator) unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state. | | | In the postwar era (that is, after the Second World War), dictatorships formed in many newly independent countries. | | | There were no such dictatorships after the beginning of the second century BCE, and later dictators such as Sulla and the Roman emperors exercised power much more personally and arbitrarily. |
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| | Cabinet of the United Kingdom |
| | The combined effect of the Prime Minister's to control cabinet by circumventing effective discussion Cabinet and the executive's ability to dominate (i.e. | | | legislative) proceedings places the British Prime in a position of great power that been likened to an "elective dictatorship" (a coined by Lord Hailsham in 1976). |
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| | With every election scores of the cronies of the former President are swept into retirement or, in some cases, into prison. | | | Executive: There is a unitary executive, a President elected by direct popular vote on ballots separate from those of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. | | | The Presidency is the dominant institution in what might have been better described as an "elective dictatorship," however, the limitation on the term of service of the President limits each elective dictatorship to six years. |
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| | PUTIN STRIKES LIBERAL POSE FOR THE WEST |
| | Despite a consensus that the constitution drafted under Mr Yeltsin in 1993 gives a more active president scope to ride roughshod over parliament, Mr Putin insisted that dictatorship "is impossible in Russia". | | | Mr Putin drew a clear distinction between his tenure in the Kremlin, expected to be confirmed by an election in March, and his predecessor's. | | | It was his decision to include land reform in his list of specific requests that would bring the most far-reaching change to ordinary Russians. |
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| | Telegraph Opinion We're teetering on the brink of an elective dictatorship |
| | However, to emasculate the Lords by removing what is left of its veto is not simply a revenge on peers who stood up for hunting. | | | The Commons could inflict any legislation it liked on the country and, however much the House of Lords might like to protest, that would be that. | | | Lord Hailsham's elective dictatorship, of which that distinguished predecessor of Charlie's warned 40 years ago, would be here. |
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| | The Fuehrer Principle in Britain by Sean Corrigan |
| | Over in the UK, our Neo-Con pin-up Prime Minister has taken a moment or two off from trying to re-order the world, in favour of imposing his will more closely on the hapless members of Britain’s elective dictatorship. | | | Cynics would argue that the way Britain’s transport and energy infrastructure are crumbling, the way our finances are deteriorating, and the rapidity with which our industrial plant is being mothballed, we’ll be a deal more ‘physically active’ by then regardless, if only because we are again marching on Parliament from Jarrow in protest! |
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| | Everything about Billy Bragg |
| | Even with a fraction of its membership elected, a chamber that has been mostly selected by an appointments committee will amount to nothing more than a supreme quango. | | | Tony Blair has been portrayed as an instinctive centraliser bent on creating an "elective dictatorship". | | | It is somewhat ironic that this term, coined by Tory grandee Lord Hailsham to describe the Labour government in 1976, should be used to criticise, of all things, the programme of Lords reform. |
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| | Lucio Colletti |
| | Belonged to Della Volpe school of Marxism in Italy, was affiliated initally to PCI but became icnreasingly moderate and latterly right wing.In the mid 70s Colletti rejected marxism (see NLR). | | | Before his death Colletti worked as a parliamentary deputy to the elective dictatorship of Berlusconi's government in Italy. | | | Colletti is best know for his work that tried to undermine the link between Marxian and Hegelian dialectics and his argument that Marx's true philosophical ancestor was Kant. |
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| | Telegraph News Liberal Democrats conference round-up |
| | Lord Goodhart, who shadows the Lord Chancellor, said that under Mr Blair's third term in power, constitutional reform had "come to a standstill and threatens to go into reverse". | | | The current electoral system, it said, had given a working majority to a party which had the support of little more than one-third of the votes at the general election. | | | Conference backed a motion warning that the lack of proper checks on the Government, resulting in an "elective dictatorship," amounted to the "most serious flaw in the British constitution". |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Comment Blair is set for a third term - and it's a chilling prospect |
| | In Britain, by contrast, displays of independence by Blair's MPs have been rare, chiefly confined to such grotesqueries as the fox hunting ban. | | | Jenkins argues convincingly for the winding up of these redundant bodies, and for a systematic revival of county and local government. | | | Much is said about the poor quality of candidates for elective office. |
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| | Welsh Liberal Democrats - news |
| | The Liberal Democrats, by contrast, received only half as many seats as they should have got. | | | It is time for Labour to ditch this system of an ‘elective dictatorship’ in favour of a system that accounts for wider choice. |
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| | Samuel Brittan : Biography |
| | These included a limit to the effective range of political decisions, a well-trained bureaucracy as a constraint (I instanced the pre-1914 Bank of England) and above all tolerance and democratic selfcontrol. | | | Nothing, however, was heard from Hailsham on elective dictatorship after the Tories returned in 1979. | | | Majority - or still more, plurality - voting is in reality simply a convenient decision rule. |
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| | Green Party - Real Progress |
| | Even America's founding fathers warned of elective dictatorship, or the tyranny of the majority over minorities. | | | The Green Party says there is one proper function of government in a case like this: to protect the rights of all individuals, including the right to practise or not practise a religion. | | | What harm is done by someone wearing a Hijab headscarf or a crucifix? |
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| | BBC News Talking Politics Checks and balances |
| | In recent years, the judges have fashioned judicial review into a powerful check on the executive. | | | In practical politics, the government can generally rely on a majority in the House of Commons to vote for its proposals. | | | What checks and balances does our constitution have to stop the UK becoming, in Lord Hailsham's famous phrase, an 'elective dictatorship'? |
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| | Prospect Magazine issue 89, August 2003 |
| | Robert Hazell Ending Britain's "elective dictatorship" is a slowly rolling programme which has now thrown up a British supreme court | | | Michael Lind Whoever runs as Democratic candidate, it could be a very close race. | | | Some see it as the last hope for a two-state solution, but Israelis are divided and Palestinians do not like the route it is taking |
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| | tomgpalmer.com: A Victory for Caesarism |
| | The country will have to descend further into chaos before the people decide to turn their backs on elective dictatorship and turn toward representative government based on democratic principles, the rule of law, and limited governmental powers. | | | The recent rise in crude oil prices has allowed Hugo Chavez to spend wildly to buy votes and it’s worked. | | | Posted by Tom Palmer at August 17, 2004 01:26 AM |
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| | At last the elective dictatorship of Tony Blair has been defeated and Parliament have exercised their proper role as the critical and reforming chamber that is our democratic defence against the excesses of government. | | | To the 49 MP’s who voted against the Government I say, “Keep up the good work when it comes to the Incitement to Racial and Religious Hatred Bill!” | | | Yesterday (Wednesday, 10 November 2005) was indeed a good day for Parliamentary democracy regardless of which side of the Terrorism Bill debate you stand on. |
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| | Keith Sutherland, The Party's Over |
| | The classical doctrine of joint and several ministerial responsibility is revealed to be a fiction, and Lord Hailsham's verdict of 'elective dictatorship' is a better assessment of the British constitution. | | | Judging from the lack of ministerial resignations in the wake of the Butler enquiry, Britain is no longer a parliamentary democracy. | | | By contrast unelected bodies like the BBC are now far more accountable for their actions. |
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| | The Terror of Bush's War on America |
| | He must not be troubled by voters protesting in Ashcroft's "free speech zones". | | | It hangs Blair out to dry because, even in Britain's elective dictatorship, the democratic climate has not yet grown so choking. | | | Will there be TV ads for Ahmed Chalabi, rubber chicken suppers and hanging chads? |
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| | Defending Taiwan's "Democracy" |
| | Taiwan today is a thoroughly corrupt "elective dictatorship" which tramples over its own national constitution and democratic majority. | | | Taiwan has undergone a catastrophic regression since Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian assumed office. | | | Its ruling DPP, having received a meager 39% plurality at the polls, doesn't even rate the epithet "majoritarian tyranny." |
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| | GDL Winner - 12 May 2005 |
| | ESSAY1 The house of lords has served parliament and the country well and is not in need of reform. | | | British politics relies on a complex system of checks and balances in order to placate the constant threat of elective dictatorship that plagues the delicate nature of our unwritten constitution. | | | The Upper House is the most prominent resource for checking the actions of Parliament and the executive, providing a body of expertise and ensuring that legislation is verified. |
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| | Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone: Information From Answers.com |
| | Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone announced his retirement after the end of the Heath government. | | | However, when his second wife Mary was killed in a riding accident in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, he decided to return to active politics, and served again as Lord Chancellor from 1979 to 1987 under Margaret Thatcher. | | | He coined the term 'elective dictatorship' in 1976, later writing a detailed exposition called The Dilemma of Democracy. |
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| | Major Issues Bulletin 30 - EDP English Democratic Party. |
| | The Tyranny of Cabinet Government has arrived — Safeguards needed now! | | | And all this would be within the Law. | | | Today it would be possible with the connivance of the majority of Members for the Cabinet to suspend the sittings of Parliament, have the Opposition Members arrested, withdraw all the few safeguards of LIBERTY such as Habeas Corpus, Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Speech and establish a virtual Dictatorship. |
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| | UCL - Department of Political Science - The Constitution Unit |
| | He will urge the House of Lords to start implementing the Wakeham report on Lords reform now and not wait until after the general election: | | | In a public lecture at University College London Lord Alexander will call for the House of Lords to be a more efficient guardian of our democracy, and a more effective check against the elective dictatorship of the House of Commons. | | | The House of Lords has a real opportunity to become a more effective, expert and efficient guardian against the elected dictatorship. |
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| | UK Conservatives Eye Election Defeat, But Doubt Polls -- 06/01/2001 |
| | London (CNSNews.com) - Britain's most famous conservative warned voters Friday that a landslide victory for Tony Blair's Labor Party in next week's general election -widely predicted in opinion polls - would be dangerous for the country, leading to an "elective dictatorship." | | | Thatcher, who was prime minister from 1979-1990, outlined her reasons not to vote Labor, and concluded that it was not too late to prevent the emergence of an "elective dictatorship." | | | In a newspaper interview, Baroness Margaret Thatcher said she supported strong government, but not government "sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult." |
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| | European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. |
| | But the King/Queen lost executive power there to the collective of ministers, called the government in Europe, and only kept ceremonial and representative functions. | | | Something close to the US system was Polish elective monarchy, and, save for the electability of the monarch, some earlier periods of British constitutional monarchy. | | | In general the further a politician is from power the more likely he is to favour checks and balances on the executive and the elective dictatorship it exercises so long as it controls the House of Commons. |
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| | We need a civic campaign to oust Blair | | | Sir Malcolm Rifkind may not have a cat in hell’s chance of becoming Conservative Party leader, but he is a hell of a sharp politician. | | | This should, first of all, include the leaders of the opposition parties – Alex Salmond, Charles Kennedy, Ken Clarke (if he wins the Tory leadership). |
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| | Liberal Democrats : Elective Dictatorship Must End - Goodhart |
| | The Liberal Democrats today renewed their call for electoral reform and for fair votes for all elections as part of a wide-ranging package of constitutional checks and balances. | | | Liberal Democrats : Elective Dictatorship Must End - Goodhart | | | Speaking during the debate ‘Ending Elective Dictatorship’, Lord Goodhart QC, Liberal Democrat Shadow Lord Chancellor, said: |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| | The powers of the office led Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, a Conservative Minister, to liken the position of Prime Minister to an "elective dictatorship." Ultimately, however, the Prime Minister may be held responsible for the consequences of legislation or of general government policy. | | | The 1949 Parliament Act is, however, the subject of a current legal challenge as to its efficacy. | | | Margaret Thatcher's party forced her from power after the introduction of the poll tax; Sir Anthony Eden fell from power following the Suez Crisis; Neville Chamberlain resigned after being criticised for his handling of negotiations with Germany prior to the outbreak of World War II. |
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| | The Liberal Democrats argue that single-party majority government is normally ‘weak’ in that it rests on a minority vote (see the 2001 and 1997 election results) and therefore lacks consent; it may also lack power in relation to interest/pressure groups, such as business or the trade unions. | | | An argument against PR is that it generally demands more knowledge of party beliefs/manifestos etc and greater activity of the voters (for example, to rank candidates in order of preference such as in the single transferable vote system), and hence may discourage participation. | | | The Liberal Democrats prefer to call a hung Parliament a ‘balanced Parliament’; they favour a centrist coalition, arguing that it would curb ‘elective dictatorship’, encourage moderate policies and promote |
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