Dictatorship

Burma is a nation that has overcome many challenges in order to become the democratic country it is today. But like all nations in the world, Burma has its own history to the development of the country. Burma’s colonization and decolonization began the process for its governmental development. Despite establishing a government, Burma’s decolonization plagued the country with political instability which created long-lasting problems that created a military regime. As time went on, political…

Is power what everyone wants? The society we live in today has some form of order and has had form for a long time. whether it is a dictatorship or democratic society, there has always been forms of hierarchy. In a democratic society, the leader is elected in by the citizens of the area and the elected party takes charge of their area. A country run by dictatorship have no right to vote and the country or area is ruled by the superior party. This gives the dictator control and power over the…

A dictatorship is a form of government, where a country is run by a single person or a small group of political figures who makes decisions for the country and ensures that his or her power remains strong and under control. In other words, the dictator or person in charge controls every aspect of the private and public control of citizens. Some examples of a dictatorship include, Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, Mussolini in Italy, and Joseph Stalin in Soviet Russia. The United States could be…

Democracy and Dictatorship do not have anything in common but in the contrary they do, not a lot however they do. Direct Democracy and Dictatorship are very different types of governments and people say that they don’t have anything in common but they do. Both governments do their jobs in very different ways although they are told that Direct Democracy is way better than Dictatorship and it’s true in my opinion they have a lot in common and also a lot of differences. A dictatorship is one of the…

Most parts of Latin America have been struggling to implement or enforce democracy for the past century. The most notable examples are Argentina and Chile. Many political scientists have argued that this is mostly due to internal factors such as the corporatist culture and lack of proper structural reforms, but they do not include external pressures from the international sphere to curb communist influence in Latin America. In this paper, I will argue that from the coup in Chile in 1973 to the…

The story of Animal Farm isn’t just a story of animals cooperating together as a strong union. Rather, the story depicts the menacing actions of a pig named Napoleon, the farm is the functioning dictatorship in which he is running quite easily. George Orwell, in Animal Farm, details the rising leadership of a notorious pig who ends up dying at the end from intoxication from drinking too much. As Napoleon is alive he eliminated certain rights from the animals and switched the several…

Anatomy of a Dictatorship - Fulbrook (1995) Book Review Published in the decade after reunification and forty years of Soviet led dictatorship, Fulbrook’s Anatomy of a Dictatorship was released to great anticipation. Fulbrook describes the central thesis of her book to be around the idea ‘that popular discontent alone was not sufficient enough to fell the system.’ It’s clear from the outset that Fulbrook wanted to move away from the traditional historiography around the GDR, in order to…

decisions. An upside to a dictatorship is that decisions can be made quickly because only one person is in charge. This idea is shown in the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding. This book is about what happens to a group of British schoolboys after they become stranded on an island. Through the different leadership styles of two main characters, Jack and Ralph, we can develop an understanding of this idea. Lord of the Flies is an allegory that shows that a dictatorship is more effective…

From the time he began his cruel, brutal dictatorship in 1965, Nicolae Ceausescu changed and destroyed the lives of millions of Romanians all over Eastern Europe. The effects of his corrupt and savage leadership quickly struck the country with oppression, poverty, violence, and hatred. All sense of Romanian pride, hope and joy was completely obliterated by the foulness of one single man. Consequently, civilians were no longer given the liberty to be educated, work, or even worship as they wished…

Bernhard, Michael, and Ekrem Karakoç. “Civil Society and the Legacies of Dictatorship.” World Politics, vol. 59, no. 4, 2007, pp. 539–567. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40060172. Michael Bernhard is a professor at the University of Florida and Ekrem Karakoc is a professor at Binghamton University. They are addressing the affects that a dictatorship leaves on a country after their rule and even in the possible transition into a democracy. It seems that the audience of this paper would…