Word: dynasticism
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Before he died, Kim Il Sung officially designated his son his heir, setting up the first dynastic succession in a communist state. The dead leader was named President for eternity; Kim rules as chairman of the National Defense Commission. Kim, once called Dear Leader, now uses his father's old...
That failure is stunning. The Arab lands lie at the heart of an arc of crisis from Marrakech to Bangladesh. Autocracies, often dynastic, remain the principal form of government; economies are stagnant; violence is a common way of resolving political debate. Last summer the U.N. Development Programme commissioned a panel...
Yet even as our most legendary political dynasty withers away, American democracy is becoming oddly more dynastic, not less so. Watching the election returns on Tuesday evening, you couldn't help being struck by all the famous political surnames attached to different, usually younger faces. Our President is the son...
No faith is as self-consciously monotheistic as Islam, and its embrace of Abraham is correspondingly joyful. If many Jews know him best as a dynastic grandfather whose grandson Jacob actually founds the nation of Israel, Muslims regard him as one of the four most important prophets. So pure is...
--The continuation of repressive autocracies, often dynastic, in the Middle East--including countries that Washington regards as its "moderate" friends--that seal off safety valves for political dissent.