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    The most unsuccessful system of government is dictatorship. It is the most unsuccessful type of government because there is only one person ruling over the whole country and the people do not get to have their say. If people speak in a unsympathetic way about the dictator they could be found guilty for some fictional and freakish reason which in some countries which equals execution. The dictator does not only rule over the people but also dominates over the military which makes the dictator…

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    The Pinochet Regime

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    when it is another election. Chile returned to democracy in 1990 after democratic elections with the victory of President Patricio Aylwin. Now let's consider what happened in Argentina, a country that experienced some dictatorships but as an example I will study the dictatorship in 1976 until 1983. The…

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    blame Putin’s government for “the growth of ultra-nationalism in Russia” (Davydoff para 1). Many believe that Russia is moving towards a democratic government, while others believe Russia is moving farther away from a democracy and closer to a dictatorship.…

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    Hitler And Mussolini Cults

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    the right of what to think. These institutions often employ the same types of tactics in order to control the people that follow them, whether it is willingly or unwillingly. This leads to the question, how did the tactics of control in fascist dictatorships compare to the tactics of control in cults? The fascist governments under Mussolini and Hitler were in place to control the people along with the leadership of cults such as, The People’s Temple Cult. The structure of fascist governments…

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    state that can veto the decisions made by this leader, adding to the previously mentioned notion that the personalist leader has no constraints of his power. The existence of poorly trained military institutions within states run by personalist dictatorships also gives us a possible motive for why these regimes might have a higher propensity for pursuing nuclear weapons programs; it is easier to control a nuclear weapons program as a symbol of military might, than an entire well trained army…

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    my claim of constitutional democracy to be supreme, but they would state dictatorship to be the most effective would be Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes believed that people were naturally greedy, selfish, and cruel."The condition of man [in the state of nature]... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.” This shows how Hobbes had believed people were bad naturally, and this is why he had supported dictatorship. A dictatorship is a form of government where the power lies directly in one person;…

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    Barefoot Gen Sparknotes

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    Furthermore, the mistreatment of the Father of the Nakaoka family by police all because of the chairmen’s revenge (Pg,50) ( Panel 7). This scene shows how in just the imperial dictatorship in japan is against men like the father of the Nakaoka family. In addition, to the name calling of the Nakaoka family they are given excuses from the food distributor about running out of rice ( Pg,50) (Panel 7). The lies of food distributor relates…

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    Thebes and Ancient Athens were antithetical, with Thebes having an absolute dictatorship and Athens having a pure, direct democracy. Nevertheless, both of these forms of government ultimately failed, as Sophocles demonstrates in his play, Antigone, and Thucydides demonstrates in his book, History of the Peloponnesian War. Together, these two works teach modern society that neither a pure democracy nor a pure dictatorship can be a successful political system due to inherent fatal flaws in each…

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    Picture yourself being born into the age of dictatorship, where everything you do is overseen and monitored by a harsh ruler. The lifestyle of the narrator in The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller is not a desirable one. This novel tells a tale of four young people living in the time of Nicolae Ceausescu who was Romania’s reigning communist dictator from 1965 to 1989. The characters in this story leave their impoverished villages in search of education at the universities. Their hope for a…

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    with the democracy and liberalism and Russia spreading the communism. Chile and Argentina are the most affected of South America, an area traditionally very unstable, marked by the alternation of regimes, generally military dictatorships. In the era of military dictatorships during the 1970 and 80s, these two states were immersed in political controversies and participated in any movement, both capitalist and communist, which were fundamental by the two powers U.S and Russia. This period was…

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