Word: authoritarianism
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...second point. Is it your contention that the United States ought to have no normal economic or diplomatic relations with authoritarian or dictatorial regimes? This policy was applied to China for 25 years and is still being applied to Cuba. Do you approve of the result? Would you recommend applying this policy to the Soviet Union? Of course not. Such sanctions work only when there is a genuine chance of changing a nation's form of government from dictatorial to democratic. By the nature of things, there has to be popular support for such a change. Where the existing dictatorial...
...room. as a matter of courtesy, to stay for the entire period. The courtesy was not only to me but to others in the room, whose attention was disrupted when others stood up to pass them, go out, etc. I said, jokingly, that one could consider this authoritarian, if one was radical; a matter of civility, if one was conservative; and a social contract, if one was utilitarian...
...history is almost over: the Marcos era. Over the two decades since his first democratic election in 1965, the President has run the gamut of transformation, changing from a populist reformer to a modernizing strongman to, in recent years, a fading and often grotesque shadow of his former authoritarian self. In the process, he has profoundly changed his country, at times in the past for the better, but of late decidedly for the worse...
Marcos has always paid careful lip service, and sometimes more than that, to democratic forms. Some of his more controversial authoritarian powers were ratified in a carefully orchestrated 1981 referendum, which he carried with 80%. The same year, he won a presidential election against a toothless opponent and also got approval for a constitutional amendment that stretched his four-year term to six years. In 1984 Marcos held elections for the Batasang Pambansa, or National Assembly. Opposition politicians won roughly one-third of the seats. Despite widespread accusations of cheating, the elections were judged acceptable by the Philippine community...
...made more impressive by being said by a dwarf." Lest anyone miss the relevance of this portrait of privilege, Bond and Composers Nick Bicat and John McKinney have interspersed 15 eerie, offbeat songs, their lyrics tinged with references to tanks, gas chambers, rockets and other modern manifestations of authoritarian evil...