Authoritarianism

Any high school student who has tried to read Shakespeare or Chauncer for English class can attest that language evolves, just like an organism. Naturally, as diverse people converse both formally and informally, new words arise and old ones die. Any high school student who has read Orwell, or listened to a language traditionalist’s lectures, can also be sure that some people always think that language is devolving as well. George Orwell’s works illuminate the political power of language to do…

create oppression for the people by abolishing their liberties for the gains of one or few, when everyone should have the human right to basic liberties, such as the freedom of speech, practice of religion, press, and organization. The idea of authoritarianism only brings a halt to being progressive within a society when great minds are not allowed to wonder. It is with time that we will see the further fall of authoritarian regimes, for authoritarian governments cannot prevail within modern…

concentration camps, violating their right to life. The master had taken a slave and slaughtered him ruthlessly. This unjust treatment lasted from 1933 to 1945. Twelve years of suffering of millions of individuals due to the choice to pursue authoritarianism. 4,812 miles away, Rafael Trujillo, another dictator, reigned over the Dominican Republic. The country was poor and needed something or someone to take them out of their economic slump. This allowed Trujillo to develop the roots of his reign…

impact the government (Bellin 2004, 139-141). In The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective Eva Bellin argues that these factors are not enough and instead “…a coercive state deeply opposed to democratic reform has quashed initiatives favorable to democracy” (Bellin 2004, 142). Bellin uses this to explain why the Middle…

the Islamic revolution and consequently, exile. From a historical aspect, the Shah acted as an authoritarian under his political regime. In politics, authoritarianism occurs when a society’s government has a strong central power with limited freedoms among individuals. Approaching Persepolis, illustrations hitherto represents aspects of authoritarianism, such as restrictions on demonstrating and taking photographs. On account of the Shah’s attempts to modernize and please multiple groups…

I believe China has a huge problem and it stems from their countries enormous population and it is related to the population growth. Ironically, their issue isn’t how fast the population is reproducing. The issue is they are struggling is that don’t have enough people to replace their baby boomers. The reason China is facing this struggle is for 2 reasons the first is that the implemented a one child policy per a family because, the Chinese government was concerned about the rate of population…

There are many counties with many different forms of government. Although, what is widely considered to be the best form of government is democracy, it allows citizens to have a variety of rights and freedoms while putting constraints on the government’s power. Authoritarian regimes on the other hand are widely considered to be awful forms of government. Authoritarian regimes have centralized leadership without any real checks on power and suppression of civil liberties. This begs the…

I. Southeast Asian countries, due to their historical and social complexity, continue to deviate from widely held political theories. In this paper, I will employ the work of Alexis De Tocqueville and Robert Putnam to show how the Philippines and Thailand prove to be enigmatic in that regard. I argue that we see a largely active civil society but low democratization in Thailand and the Philippines owing to their authoritarian histories and lack of democratic institutionalization. I chose to…

shoe and next thing you know a bunch of explosions that happening everywhere. So, we never really found out who was on the attacking side and who on the defending side. 2. Professor Ingram argues that authoritarianism is a myth because he believes that there is so no such thing as complete authoritarianism just because there must always be some kind of approval from the general public. The four common characteristics shared by authoritarian states are: 1) Authoritarian leaders are the primary…

Plato more explicitly says that no person can challenge another’s position or role in the Kallipolis because if someone is suited to the role of ruling or shows leadership, no individual can interfere in their duty to do so (Popper, 1962) and if for any reason these roles are conflated or practised by the wrong individual than this will have dangerous consequences for society (Kallipolis). Not only is this approach extremely problematic because it completely diminishes he idea of any meritocracy…