Word: authoritarianism
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...while Peruvians have been celebrating "the end of the dictatorship," the political class have been trying to figure out just who will replace the authoritarian president. New elections are scheduled for next April, but there?s no clear line of succession before then. The ruling party wants second vice president Ricardo Marquez to take the job, but the congressional opposition wants the speaker of the legislature, Valentin Paniagua, to take over. Opposition legislators have questioned the credentials of Marquez, a close ally of Fujimori, and his path to the presidency remains constitutionally murky. First in line would be the first...
...Things are so much easier in totalitarian systems. As Joseph Stalin once noted, it's not who votes that matters, but who counts the votes. In authoritarian societies, the government tells people how to vote and then they count the votes and then they win. It's so much neater and less confusing that way. You don't need butterfly ballots when there is only one person to vote...
...ability to rise above a common human tendency toward self-righteousness and self-interest helped him survive a four-decade long struggle for peace and freedom under authoritarian rule. Kim's outspoken crusades against the government brought him years of torture, imprisonment and multiple attempts on his life...
...created such a following by the early '70s that authoritarian leaders tried to have a truck kill him on the highway. When that attempt only injured Kim, Korean intelligence officers were sent to drown him at sea. With concrete blocks tied to his feet, he was moments from death when American officials in Seoul came to the rescue. His third encounter with death came in 1980, when a court ordered him to be hanged on charges of treason. International pressure again saved him, reducing his sentence to life in prison...
...want to avoid the danger of service that is patronizing or authoritarian, that is imposed from the outside and doesn't respect that people can make decisions for themselves," she says. "I feel like HOP maintains the integrity [of viewing] people as people...