Authoritarianism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-06

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00:01:28 1 Authoritarian government and states
00:01:39 1.1 Types
00:08:43 1.2 Authoritarianism and totalitarianism
00:11:46 1.3 Authoritarianism and democracy
00:15:02 2 Characteristics
00:15:12 2.1 Systemic weakness and resilience
00:16:50 2.2 Gender and authoritarianism
00:18:00 3 Examples
00:18:21 3.1 Current
00:24:23 3.2 Historical
00:24:37 4 Historical trends
00:24:47 4.1 Anti-authoritarianism
00:28:37 4.2 Authoritarian revival
00:31:23 5 See also
00:31:53 6 Notes
00:32:02 7 Works cited
00:32:28 8 External links



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Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms. Individual freedoms are subordinate to the state and there is no constitutional accountability and rule of law under an authoritarian regime. Authoritarian regimes can be autocratic with power concentrated in one person or it can be more spread out between multiple officials and government institutions. Juan Linz's influential 1964 description of authoritarianism characterized authoritarian political systems by four qualities:

Limited political pluralism, that is such regimes place constraints on political institutions and groups like legislatures, political parties and interest groups;
A basis for legitimacy based on emotion, especially the identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizable societal problems" such as enemies of the people or state, underdevelopment or insurgency;
Minimal social mobilization most often caused by constraints on the public such as suppression of political opponents and anti-regime activity;
Informally defined executive power with often vague and shifting, but vast powers.