Autocracy

In class, we defined autocracy as a system of government with a single ruler, for example, the Tsar. Autocracy can be beneficial in some instances, such as when decisions need to be made quickly without consulting with a large group of people. Autocracy sometime requires strong leader in order to get things accomplished quickly and efficiently. Autocracy in Russia can be seen as a progressive as: Peter the Great attempts to establish Russia as a great nation through reforms, Catherine the Great’s education reform, and her believe that autocracy is the most suitable for Russia due to its size. Autocracy could be used to improve Russia. We can see this when Peter the Great’s reform the domestic structure of Russia. At the age of ten, Peter the…

This is highlighted thoroughly through the historians and primary sources such as the re-account of Father George Gapon to truly demonstrate how the stubborn and injudicious personality of the Tsar ultimately influenced his weak leadership and decisions politically, economically and socially in the events of Bloody Sunday, the 1905 revolution and world war 1 leading to the rising discontent of the people; forcing him out of autocracy and into his abdication in…

A system of high equality will mean there is lesser likelihood of conflict between the autocrat and the people. A perfect example of this would be the country of Malaysia. Malaysia’s government is structured as a spurious democracy; in reality Malaysia is primarily a autocratic state. Nevertheless Malaysia maintains a successful autocracy because they maintain a high level of income equality, and lack of corruption. Authoritarian systems are likely to fail in nations in which income inequality…

A crisis of modernization was one of the many reasons that caused the collapse of the autocracy in Russia, and the first step to allowing Lenin and the Bolshevik party to eventually gain control of the state. In the 19th century, Russia was one of the largest and most backward states on the European continent. The peasants of the country remained serfs until the mid-1800s, and even when they gained their freedom, they were enslaved to debt and redemption payments to their landlords that they…

makes his justification less concrete. Colaresi’s (2014) third and final argument about the benefits of oversight is that democracies with oversight have a higher success rate when it comes to foreign policy disputes, and thus have a higher ability in disputes (p. 220). In his analysis, he points to a chart of the probability of success of a democracy with high oversight versus autocracies with little to no oversight. This graph shows that when high levels of oversight are instituted,…

prominent form of government is autocracy and their dictator is President Bashar al-Assad. Since a single person holds most of the power, there is no other party to check that he is using it fairly. Through the example of the Syrian civil war, it is revealed that Autocracies are more likely to have civil wars than democracies due to the lack of civilian freedoms/power when a difference of opinion arises The initial conflict involved the Syrian government and the civilians of Syria. According…

In “On Liberty,” Mill discloses his view that “the despotism of custom” is the antithesis of progress and development (78). Progress and development need liberty, because liberty lets people explore new ideas, and new ways of living, which can help people increase their standard of living. Once again, the processes of representative governments protect liberty better than autocracies…

should also decide how long should leader remain in the position of power? On to my next quotations, Jack had “waved his spear again” and he asked “has everybody eaten as much as they want”. When no response occurs he had repeated his question. However, “His tone conveyed a warning, given out of the pride of ownership, and the boys ate faster while there was still time.” The way he seems to lead the children is out of fear and manipulation. Repetition and Diction are both present during these…

democracy, or it will result in despotism, which is what the governments are like in several parts of the world. He states that democracy requires the large participation of the society. I agree with this argument because democracy means nothing without the participation of people, but even with the participation of people, it can still be destroyed. An example of this can be Ghana under Kwame Nkrumah, the leader of independence of Ghana and Pan-Africanism, who later became a dictator, and…

Now that the literature on the topic has been through an exhaustive analysis, the authoritarianism of these regimes requires a comparison. Expansion of the similarities and the differences between Mubarak and Pinochet will provide a deeper understanding of the flexibility of autocracy. Egypt and Chile are an ocean apart, literally and figuratively. The regions differ greatly in nearly all facets such as origins, geography, language, social beliefs, and countless more. Examining a Middle Eastern…