Word: authoritarianism
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...Yeltsin that lurking danger is a challenge he must face now. To do it, he is launching what some are calling, without irony, a period of authoritarian democracy. He will rule by decree -- at least until elections are held -- to try to get his country back on track toward economic and political reform. To accomplish this, he must do nothing less than prepare for elections, revitalize the stalled economy, pacify a politicized military and demonstrate that he heads a functioning government. "Yeltsin must get down to governing quickly," says Peter Frank, an expert on Russia at Essex University, England...
...Ecuadorian Ambassador to the United States said last night at Dudley House that the key to "modernization" for his country is to switch from an authoritarian to a more democratic government...
...Catholics, who have a tendency to view the Catholic church as some sort of authoritarian Stalinesque entity, may be surprised that an edict ordering clergy to stifle dissent will cause such commotion. There is a tendency to judge Catholicism from what the pope says, rather than from what the majority of American Catholics do. Yet consider, for example, the following responses to Humanae Vitae...
...other side of '68 was a radical remolding of the American right. The "old right" stood for anti-communism and economic conservatism and had a strong anti-authoritarian streak of its own, as personified, for example, by novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand. But in response to the anti-authoritarianism of the young radicals, the right suddenly restyled itself as the defender of authority in all its manifestations -- legal, familial, religious and military. "Traditional values" made their first tentative debut in the '68 Republican campaign, when Spiro Agnew promised to cure social unrest with a mass spanking. It was in '68 that...
...importance of "open societies." The lessons stuck with Soros and now underpin his efforts on behalf of the part of Europe that bore the brunt of both repressive isms and where, he fears, freedom may be at risk if economic and political chaos provokes a return to authoritarian rule. "There are two reasons why I support open societies," he explains. "One is the possibility of actually having an impact, of turning a tragic situation around; and the other, because, simply, history has no end. People may see a black hole where Yugoslavia once was, but in the future those people...