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| | The Challenge of Semi-Authoritarianism |
 | | This is particularly clear in those countries where multi-party elections return to power the old authoritarian leadership. | | | As the wave of democratization of the 1990s recedes, it is leaving behind many democratic states but also many semi-authoritarian regimes. | | | The enforcement of libel laws to check the irresponsibility of mass media is a much more complex process than ordering the closure of a newspaper or the arrest of its editor. |
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http://www.ceip.org/programs/democr/Semi-Authoritarianism%20WP.htm
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| | Democratization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Democratization is the transition from authoritarian or semi-authoritarian systems to democratic political systems, where democratic systems are taken to be those approximating to universal suffrage, regular elections, a civil society, the rule of law, and an independent judiciary. | | | This definition however is obviously rooted in a late 20th century concept of democracy, and differs from what democracy would have meant in another era, or what it is thought to ultimately lead to, in a given political theory. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratization
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| | Semi-authoritarian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Most of them are dominant-party systems - that is, states where opposition parties are allowed and free elections are held, but where the opposition has no real chance of winning. | | | The term semi-authoritarian is used to refer to a state or regime that shares both democratic and authoritarian features. | | | Rather, the term "semi-authoritarian" is reserved for stable regimes that combine democratic and authoritarian elements. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-authoritarian
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| | World Movement for Democracy - Second Assembly Report |
| | residual authoritarian laws, even when there is a new democratic constitution; | | | formal democratic structures, but authoritarian political culture and practices; | | | International democratic activists should visit local semi-authoritarian situations to gather factual evidence and provide solidarity with beleaguered NGOs, civil society, and opposition groups. |
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http://www.wmd.org/second_assembly/topical/w-t14.html
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| | Semi-Authoritarianism |
| | Marina Ottaway is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. | | | They combine rhetorical acceptance of liberal democracy, the existence of some formal democratic institutions and respect for a limited sphere of civil and political liberties with essentially illiberal or even authoritarian tendencies. | | | Semi-authoritarian regimes are also numerous in Sub-Saharan Africa, where most multiparty elections of the 1990s failed to produce working parliaments or other institutions capable of holding the executive even remotely accountable. |
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http://dev.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/12/03/006.html
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| | Why the Dalai Lama Should Read Aristotle |
| | Furthermore, it appears that Lee's attempt to circumvent the Universal Declaration may be explained by his wish to avoid the limitations imposed by Articles 29(3) and 30. | | | Whereas the leaders of the PRC speak of human responsibility to the State, the Dalai Lama talks of universal responsibility to all sentient beings. | | | But if we were to read the passage with a more exclusive interpretation, then perhaps it is possible that Aristotle would have approved of a global government like the United Nations that promotes, on average, more liberal democratic ideas over authoritarian ones. |
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http://www.buddhistinformation.com/why_the_dalai_lama_should_read_a.htm
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| | Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Wingnut Authoritarian Law Professors on the March! |
| | Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Wingnut Authoritarian Law Professors on the March! | | | I have observed her as having an authoritarian streak, though, and the upshot of being a national security Democrat for Bush is to be at least mildly wingnutty. | | | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Wingnut Authoritarian Law Professors on the March! |
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http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/08/wingnut_authori.html
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| | Martin Shaw a regressive crystallisation of global state power: theorising the 'war against terrorism' |
| | This helped create the momentum for more comprehensive presecutions of the major criminals of the Yugoslav wars as a whole. | | | In the context of democratic change, secessionist national movements challenge the quasi-imperial character of many states. | | | Whereas (in the earlier wars) the West had conventional state enemies in both Iraq and Serbia, its prime enemy today, the terrorist networks, cannot, by definition, be seriously defeated by conventional military means. |
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http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/109shaw.htm
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| | The Internet and State Control in Authoritarian Regimes |
| | It is still unclear whether such pressure can significantly influence an authoritarian state's policy decisions. | | | There is a growing consensus among politicians and pundits in the United States that the Internet poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian regimes. | | | And finally, is the authoritarian state proactively guiding the development of the Internet so that the medium serves state interests? |
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http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_8/kalathil/index.html
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| | Brookings Institution Press, Deferring Democracy, Promoting Openness in Authoritarian Regimes |
| | Semi-authoritarian states in Asia such as Singapore and Malaysia have representative and judi- cial systems that, although democratic on paper, are frequently used to pro- tect and preserve the regime through authoritarian practices.~3 Russia is likely to remain in a state of limbo between authoritarianism and democ- racy for several years to come. | | | Rather, in authoritarian states, even liberalizing ones, elections are often less than the sum of their parts because of their strict limits and their instrumental use to the regime. | | | Whatever short-term advantage may accrue to the regime in granting a small opening in the political system, the inevitable eject is a loosening of the political reins. |
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http://brookings.nap.edu/books/0815717016/html/33.html
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| | Embassy of the U.S. London: Current Issues: Human Rights: U.N. Must Not Shrink from Naming Human-Rights Abusers, U.S. ... |
| | Sadly, as we look around the globe, some states with long, democratic traditions or more recent democratic transitions, have taken perceptible movements back toward patterns of political authoritarianism, constraints on freedom of the press, restrictions on political competition, and executive influence over their judiciaries. | | | The United States shares with the European Union and others a dedication to helping Ukraine consolidate its recent democratic gains and improve general respect for human rights. | | | My government shares others' concerns that Ukraine's recent progress stands in contrast to current trends in it's giant neighbor, Russia, where regression toward the concentration of power in the Kremlin poses questions for that country's democratic transition. |
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| | Democracy rising in ex-Soviet states :: Charter'97 :: News :: 10/02/2005 |
| | Uzbekistan`s gas-rich neighbor, Turkmenistan, is run by a North Korean-style dictatorship that permits no dissent of any kind. | | | For Russia, where authoritarian methods have been taking root under President Vladimir Putin, the prospect of pro-democracy rebellions sweeping the former Soviet Union seems to threaten the underpinnings of domestic stability. | | | The prospect has sent shudders through the Kremlin, still smarting from the "loss" of pro-Moscow regimes in Georgia and Ukraine, and reeling in the face of its own grass-roots revolt by pensioners protesting cuts in social services. |
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| | danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: The fourth wave of democratization? |
| | All waves of democratization are followed by counter-waves, which happened in the mid-to-late nineties, with authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes emerging in a lot of the post-Soviet states. | | | The first (small) wave was in the early 1800's, the second took place immediately after the Second World War, and the third wave started in Southern Europe in 1974 and ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. | | | However, the exogenous shock of 9/11, the Rose Revolution in Georgia, and the strong rhetoric of the Bush administration on this front has combined to trigger some serious political change across the Eurasian land mass. |
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http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/001960.html
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| | The Growing Challenge of Semi-Authoritarianism |
| | It is difficult for any government to be uncompromisingly authoritarian. | | | It has become more widespread, however, with the end of the Cold War, which has forced most governments to make at least some gestures, or even take some steps, in the direction of democracy. | | | The rise of semi-authoritarianism presents significant analytical and practical challenges for both policymakers and scholars. |
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http://www.ceip.org/programs/democr/semiauth.htm
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| | Brightway Hypnotherapy |
| | On one web site, the authoritarian, semi-mystical approach was boldly promoted by a photograph of the hypnotherapist, ‘with a digitally-enhanced gleam in his eye.’ | | | This last factor is further enhanced, by the influence of the group: several hundred individuals all demanding entertainment tends to increase conformity. | | | ‘In a lay clinical setting, the old authoritarian approach has little value, since it requires the subject to assume a helpless role which undercuts the objectives of sound psychotherapy. |
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| | OxBlog |
| | One senior American official in Baghdad said the U.S. team had been so concerned about being seen as an occupying power that officials were overly reluctant to exert their full authority. | | | We were so concerned about being authoritarian that we didn't exercise authority." | | | The absence of strong leadership -- Iraqi or American -- is a subject of intense complaint among ordinary Iraqis, who are struggling with a lack of civil order after 35 years of authoritarian rule. |
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http://oxblog.blogspot.com/2003_05_11_oxblog_archive.html
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| | History On-Line |
| | Political parties and the transition from authoritarianism: the case of Algeria | | | A number of reforms were introduced, partly because of pressure from the street, but mainly because the incumbent authorities needed them to legitimise themselves and hang on to power. | | | That date marked the beginning of the transition from authoritarianism with the opening of political space to previously excluded groups. |
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| | Grants Program |
| | These included the familiar restrictions and repression of authoritarian states, the weak institutions and corruption of more nominal democracies, as well as newer pressures that are a result of government strategies to combat international terrorist networks operating throughout the region. | | | In response to these circumstances, NED continued to concentrate its resources in Asia on organizations working to pry open dictatorial systems and broaden rights and political space in semi-authoritarian countries. | | | A diversity of challenges confronted those who would advance democracy in Asia in 2003. |
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| | CER 9(1) Sullivan article |
| | While crises are often required to induce change, supporting and shaping the resulting policies requires domestic support no matter whether the country is a functioning democracy or, as is often the case, an authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regime. | | | In many cases, constituencies can be found in the business sector, especially among the outwardly-oriented firms or in the entrepreneurial sectors. |
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http://www.scs.unr.edu/~cer/abstracts/v9n1sullivan.html
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| | NZOOM - ONE News - World |
| | Dislike of Saddam Hussein, fear of terror attacks and authoritarian governments are factors curbing Asia's Muslim peoples from large protests against war in Iraq, but a long conflict and civilian deaths could change that. | | | A rapid rise in the death toll among Iraqi civilians could turn the tide even in the face of authoritarian governments. | | | A few thousand demonstrators have been taking to the streets in Indonesia, some 10,000 marched in the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka and about 60,000 gathered on Sunday in the Pakistani city of Lahore -- all small-scale by Asian standards. |
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http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,177787-1-9,00.html
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| | CNN.com - Transcripts |
| | LEVIN: Well, the collapse of the Soviet Union did, but Putin, for example, would also associate the Yeltsin period with, for example, the plundering of the Russian state by powerful polyarchical businessmen. | | | LEVIN: But, secondly, you see, Putin -- and it must be said a lot of people around the world -- have been very heavily influenced by the tremendous success of the authoritarian Chinese state in developing China. | | | DOBBS: I thought that was -- I thought the Chinese were your reference at the outset. |
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| | Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule |
| | Yet few studies have sought to systematically analyze the exact ways in which Internet use may lay the basis for political change. | | | Based on methodical assessment of evidence from these cases—China, Cuba, Singapore, Vietnam, Burma, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt—the study contends that the Internet is not necessarily a threat to authoritarian regimes. | | | Amazon.com statement required by their affiliate program; this site operates independently. |
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http://isbn.nu/0870031945
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| | The Great Firewall of China |
| | Due to this limitation, you may experience unexpected results within this site. | | | How Google caved in to China's authoritarian government while spouting do-gooder cliches at the same time. |
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