Word: authoritarianism
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...many economists who deplore its authoritarian government, Chile remains a model of what can be achieved in restructuring an aging, prostrate economy into a streamlined machine. The ironic reason for the success is that the dictator is allowing the economists to free business from state control...
...This old authoritarian system creates passive people. People who are treated as if they couldn't think for themselves soon stop to think for themselves--just watch the behavior of otherwise active people when they are on a group tour...
...question is, who will do the planning, and in whose interest? Will the economy come to reflect the ideal on which this country was funded--participatory democracy--or will it reflect the operation of the economy as it is--authoritarian and hierarchical? Planning can be participative or authoritarian...
...student of Khomeini's who now teaches at Georgetown University, feels that Khomeini has changed over the years: "He's more militant now. He's more stubborn, less flexible, less subtle." As they try to analyze Khomeini from a distance, some Western intelligence sources conclude that he is an authoritarian personality who thinks almost totally in black-and-white terms, has only a limited tactical flexibility and is unlikely to tolerate any challenge to his power. He has strong narcissistic traits and reacts to threats by demagogy. But Khomeini is capable of backing away, albeit reluctantly, when his goals cannot...
...with a knowledge of English good enough for direct communication with U.S. commanders. According to President Choi's earlier promise, the newly installed Cabinet's most important immediate task was supposed to be the preparation of a political breakthrough: the systematic revision of Park's sternly authoritarian 1972 "Yushin" constitution...