Word: authoritarianism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Less than two decades ago, Taiwan's political system closely paralleled that of the mainland, a strict, authoritarian regime ruled by a single party whose structure was copied from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Following his flight from the mainland, Chiang's martial-law regime banned opposition parties. Dissidents were jailed or went into exile, and newspapers and the broadcast media were tightly controlled. But Chiang's son and successor, Chiang Ching-kuo, opened the political system, lifting martial law in 1987. Lee succeeded him in 1988 and continued the reforms, holding the first parliamentary...
...Dean's objective is to totally outlaw fire from students' rooms, then he would have to ban fires in the fireplaces, the smoking of cigarettes and the use of house kitchens, not to mention conveniences like hot pots and microwaves. Such an unpopular move would rightly be considered authoritarian...
...main goals is to observe how an authoritarian regime has been replaced by a democracy in less than 10 years," Kuo said...
...speaking, he is reticent about personal references. The deficiencies in his upbringing are becoming clearer. In 1994, anxious to present his side of an increasingly difficult separation, he made a TV film and authorized a biography, both by British broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby. Charles cited his distant parents, especially his authoritarian father, for some of his difficulties. Hardly a gentlemanly thing to do, but his point is underscored in a new biography, Elizabeth, by Sarah Bradford, a well-connected British author...
Those unsettled by reform are angry at Yeltsin, but reformers are too. He has dumped most advocates of a market economy from his Cabinet, and he has turned to a hardfisted style of leadership, surrounding himself with ever more authoritarian aides. Last week, after bragging about how much he has done to promote a "genuinely free" media, he fired the head of Russia's state-owned television network. (The station, it seemed, was engaged in too much muckraking.) Vyachelsav Kostikov, who once served Yeltsin as press secretary, said that for the President, "power is his ideology, his friend, his concubine...