adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an authoritarian regime (= with very strong control )
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The post-war authoritarian regimes of eastern Europe have been replaced by democratically elected governments.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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A more authoritarian regime could have simply imprisoned the organizers.
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Oddly, her outlook was more authoritarian than her chief's.
■ NOUN
government
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What is clear is that current constitutional arrangements do suit an authoritarian government well.
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They damned the no-nonsense, authoritarian government , which peremptorily squashed even the smallest perceived threat to social peace.
regime
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There had been some authoritarian regimes that were also populist and had been sustained by votes not repressive force.
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A thorough comparison of authoritarian regimes .
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It may be easier for an authoritarian regime than for a democratic one to carry out economic restructuring.
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It connoted a rational, efficient method of organization-something to take the place of the arbitrary exercise of power by authoritarian regimes .
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The temptation simply to continue with presidential rule would be enormous and another authoritarian regime would be born.
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Citizens are not permitted to question the political institutions, procedures, or value allocations of an authoritarian regime .
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An alliance between workers, peasants and petty bourgeoisie necessitates a bureaucratic authoritarian regime . 2.
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Totalitarian regimes , even more than authoritarian regimes, depend upon extensive coercion for their survival.
rule
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Both had been determined to overcome authoritarian rule from Addis Ababa and had worked closely together to achieve this end.
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It is a liberal city, home ground to Kim Dae Jung, a longtime leader of opponents of authoritarian rule .
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He held the post during Milosevic's authoritarian rule .
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It was a radical departure from the past, an interlude of democracy in an otherwise unbroken line of authoritarian rule .
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These transitions are likely to differ from recent western transitions from other types of authoritarian rule in a number of key respects.
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In either case, the end result was the emergence or a strong centralized state under authoritarian rule .
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That civil war has been the rationale for the authoritarian rule Suharto and the military have enforced over the decades.
state
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Even in more authoritarian states public opinion could be a real force.
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Britain is not yet an authoritarian state .
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As Reich puts it: The reactionary middle-class man perceives himself in the Fuhrer, in the authoritarian state .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an extreme right-wing, authoritarian regime
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His management style has been criticized as authoritarian .
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Many people are now demanding a more democratic and less authoritarian form of government.
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Their father was authoritarian in the home, insisting on total obedience.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And my excessively tidy and authoritarian behaviour shows that I was striving to be the person the school wanted me to be.
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Citizens are not permitted to question the political institutions, procedures, or value allocations of an authoritarian regime.
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His real style, they believe, is authoritarian and his policies excessively sympathetic to the armed forces.
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It is also authoritarian and hierarchical.
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Once discredited in economic terms, authoritarian regimes tend to lose their grip.
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The concept of authoritarian population implies, for Jessop etal., a monolithic, relatively stable and widely supported form of government.