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Authoritarian constitutions may help legitimize, strengthen, and consolidate regimes. [24] An authoritarian constitution "that successfully coordinates government action and defines popular expectations can also help consolidate the regime's grip on power by inhibiting re coordination on a different set of arrangements."
The power of authoritarianism rests in creating ambiguity in otherwise simple and collectively understood legal ideas, and then using that ambiguity to undermine the law’s original intent.
In authoritarian regimes, political power is concentrated in the hands of a single leader or a small group of leaders who exercise almost complete control over the government and its institutions. [58] Because some authoritarian leaders are not elected by a majority, their main threat is that posed by the masses. [58]
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Guided democracy, also called directed democracy [1] and managed democracy, [2] [3] is a formally democratic government that functions as a de facto authoritarian government or, in some cases, as an autocratic government. [4] Such hybrid regimes are legitimized by elections, but do not change the state's policies, motives, and goals. [5] [page ...
The authoritarian regime of Ayub Khan was backed by the United States as a bulwark against the influence of the Soviet Union in South Asia. Henry Kissinger, a powerful US diplomat, was wary of the left-wing sympathies of the Indian government, and exploited the historic tension between Pakistan and India for American interests. China: Deng Xiaoping
From the violent Shays Rebellion to the Jan. 6 insurrection, American democracy has been tested several times. | Opinion
In 1883, the Supreme Court refused to do away with racial segregation. And that’s helped set the stage for today’s massive resistance to multiracial power.