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Authoritarianism

February 16, 2024

This article is about authoritarianism in political science and organizational studies. For authoritarianism in psychology, see Authoritarian personality. For a form of government where power is held by a single individual, see Autocracy.

Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of democracy, civil liberties, and political plurality.[1] It involves the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in the rule of law, separation of powers, and democratic voting.[2][3] Political scientists have created many typologies describing variations of authoritarian forms of government.[3] Authoritarian regimes may be either autocratic or oligarchic and may be based upon the rule of a party or the military.[4][5] States that have a blurred boundary between democracy and authoritarianism have some times been characterized as "hybrid democracies", "hybrid regimes" or "competitive authoritarian" states.[6][7][8]

The political scientist Juan Linz, in an influential[9] 1964 work, An Authoritarian Regime: Spain, defined authoritarianism as possessing four qualities:

  1. Limited political pluralism, which is achieved with constraints on the legislature, political parties and interest groups.
  2. Political legitimacy based on appeals to emotion and identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizable societal problems, such as underdevelopment or insurgency."
  3. Minimal political mobilization, and suppression of anti-regime activities.
  4. Ill-defined executive powers, often vague and shifting, used to extend the power of the executive.[10][11]

Minimally defined, an authoritarian government lacks free and competitive direct elections to legislatures, free and competitive direct or indirect elections for executives, or both.[12][13][14][15] Broadly defined, authoritarian states include countries that lack civil liberties such as freedom of religion, or countries in which the government and the opposition do not alternate in power at least once following free elections.[16] Authoritarian states might contain nominally democratic institutions such as political parties, legislatures and elections which are managed to entrench authoritarian rule and can feature fraudulent, non-competitive elections.[17] Since 1946, the share of authoritarian states in the international political system increased until the mid-1970s but declined from then until the year 2000.[18]

Characteristics

Authoritarianism is characterized by highly concentrated and centralized government power maintained by political repression and the exclusion of potential or supposed challengers by armed force. It uses political parties and mass organizations to mobilize people around the goals of the regime.[19] Adam Przeworski has theorized that "authoritarian equilibrium rests mainly on lies, fear and economic prosperity."[20] However, Daniel A. Bell and Wang Pei used China's experience with COVID-19 to argue that the categories are not so clear cut.[21]

Authoritarianism also tends to embrace the informal and unregulated exercise of political power, a leadership that is "self-appointed and even if elected cannot be displaced by citizens' free choice among competitors", the arbitrary deprivation of civil liberties and little tolerance for meaningful opposition.[19] A range of social controls also attempt to stifle civil society while political stability is maintained by control over and support of the armed forces, a bureaucracy staffed by the regime and creation of allegiance through various means of socialization and indoctrination.[19]

Authoritarianism is marked by "indefinite political tenure" of the ruler or ruling party (often in a one-party state) or other authority.[19] The transition from an authoritarian system to a more democratic form of government is referred to as democratization.[19]

Constitutions in authoritarian regimes

Authoritarian regimes often adopt "the institutional trappings" of democracies such as constitutions.[22] Constitutions in authoritarian states may serve a variety of roles, including "operating manual" (describing how the government is to function); "billboard" (signal of regime's intent), "blueprint" (outline of future regime plans), and "window dressing" (material designed to obfuscate, such as provisions setting forth freedoms that are not honored in practice).[23] 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."[25] Unlike democratic constitutions, authoritarian constitutions do not set direct limits on executive authority; however, in some cases such documents may function as ways for elites to protect their own property rights or constrain autocrats' behavior.[26]

The Soviet Russia Constitution of 1918, the first charter of the new Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic (RSFSR), was described by Vladimir Lenin as a "revolutionary" document. It was, he said, unlike any constitution drafted by a nation-state.[27] The concept of "authoritarian constitutionalism" has been developed by legal scholar Mark Tushnet.[28] Tushnet distinguishes authoritarian constitutionalist regimes from "liberal constitutionalist" regimes ("the sort familiar in the modern West, with core commitments to human rights and self-governance implemented by means of varying institutional devices") and from purely authoritarian regimes (which reject the idea of human rights or constraints on leaders' power).[28] He describes authoritarian constitutionalist regimes as (1) authoritarian dominant-party states that (2) impose sanctions (such as libel judgments) against, but do not arbitrarily arrest, political dissidents; (3) permit "reasonably open discussion and criticism of its policies"; (4) hold "reasonably free and fair elections", without systemic intimidation, but "with close attention to such matters as the drawing of election districts and the creation of party lists to ensure as best it can that it will prevail – and by a substantial margin"; (5) reflect at least occasional responsiveness to public opinion; and (6) create "mechanisms to ensure that the amount of dissent does not exceed the level it regards as desirable." Tushnet cites Singapore as an example of an authoritarian constitutionalist state, and connects the concept to that of hybrid regimes.[28]

Economy

Scholars such as Seymour Lipset,[29] Carles Boix, Susan Stokes,[30] Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Stephens and John Stephens[31] argue that economic development increases the likelihood of democratization. Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi argue that while economic development makes democracies less likely to turn authoritarian, there is insufficient evidence to conclude that development causes democratization (turning an authoritarian state into a democracy).[32]

Eva Bellin argues that under certain circumstances the bourgeoise and labor are more likely to favor democratization, but less so under other circumstances.[33] Economic development can boost public support for authoritarian regimes in the short-to-medium term.[34]

According to Michael Albertus, most land reform programs tend to be implemented by authoritarian regimes that subsequently withhold property rights from the beneficiaries of the land reform. Authoritarian regimes do so to gain coercive leverage over rural populations.[35]

Institutions

Authoritarian regimes typically incorporate similar political institutions to that of democratic regimes, although they may serve different purposes. Democratic regimes are marked by institutions that are essential to economic development and individual freedom, including representative legislatures and competitive political parties.[36][37] Most authoritarian regimes embrace these political structures, but use it in a way that reinforces their power.[36] Authoritarian legislatures, for example, are forums through which leaders may enhance their bases of support, share power, and monitor elites.[38] Additionally, authoritarian party systems are extremely unstable and unconducive to party development, largely due to monopolistic patterns of authority.[39]

Democratic and authoritarian arguably differ most prominently in their elections. Democratic elections are generally inclusive, competitive, and fair.[40] In most instances, the elected leader is appointed to act on behalf of the general will. Authoritarian elections, on the other hand, are frequently subject to fraud and extreme constraints on the participation of opposing parties.[39] Autocratic leaders employ tactics like murdering political opposition and paying election monitors to ensure victory.[36][41] Despite this, the proportion of authoritarian regimes with elections and support parties has risen in recent years.[36] This is largely due to the increasing popularity of democracies and electoral autocracies, leading authoritarian regimes to imitate democratic regimes in hopes of receiving foreign aid and dodging criticism.[36][42]

According to a 2018 study, most party-led dictatorships regularly hold popular elections. Prior to the 1990s, most of these elections had no alternative parties or candidates for voters to choose. Since the end of the Cold War, about two-thirds of elections in authoritarian systems allow for some opposition, but the elections are structured in a way to heavily favor the incumbent authoritarian regime.[43]

Hindrances to free and fair elections in authoritarian systems may include:[43]

  • Control of the media by the authoritarian incumbents.
  • Interference with opposition campaigning.
  • Electoral fraud.
  • Violence against opposition.
  • Large-scale spending by the state in favor of the incumbents.
  • Permitting of some parties, but not others.
  • Prohibitions on opposition parties, but not independent candidates.
  • Allowing competition between candidates within the incumbent party, but not those who are not in the incumbent party.

Interactions with other elites and the masses

The foundations of stable authoritarian rule are that the authoritarian prevents contestation from the masses and other elites. The authoritarian regime may use co-optation or repression (or carrots and sticks) to prevent revolts.[44][45] Authoritarian rule entails a balancing act whereby the ruler has to maintain the support of other elites (frequently through the distribution of state and societal resources) and the support of the public (through distribution of the same resources): the authoritarian rule is at risk if the balancing act is lopsided, as it risks a coup by the elites or an uprising by the mass public.[46][47]

Manipulation of information

Main articles: Political censorship and Propaganda

According to a 2019 study by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, authoritarian regimes have over time become less reliant on violence and mass repression to maintain control. The study shows instead that authoritarians have increasingly resorted to manipulation of information as a means of control. Authoritarians increasingly seek to create an appearance of good performance, conceal state repression, and imitate democracy.[48]

While authoritarian regimes invest considerably in propaganda out of a belief that it enhances regime survival, scholars have offered mixed views as to whether propaganda is effective.[49]

Systemic weakness and resilience

Andrew J. Nathan notes that "regime theory holds that authoritarian systems are inherently fragile because of weak legitimacy, overreliance on coercion, over-centralization of decision making, and the predominance of personal power over institutional norms. ... Few authoritarian regimes – be they communist, fascist, corporatist, or personalist – have managed to conduct orderly, peaceful, timely, and stable successions."[50]

Political scientist Theodore M. Vestal writes that authoritarian political systems may be weakened through inadequate responsiveness to either popular or elite demands and that the authoritarian tendency to respond to challenges by exerting tighter control, instead of by adapting, may compromise the legitimacy of an authoritarian state and lead to its collapse.[19]

One exception to this general trend is the endurance of the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party which has been unusually resilient among authoritarian regimes. Nathan posits that this can be attributed to four factors such as (1) "the increasingly norm-bound nature of its succession politics"; (2) "the increase in meritocratic as opposed to factional considerations in the promotion of political elites"; (3) "the differentiation and functional specialization of institutions within the regime"; and (4) "the establishment of institutions for political participation and appeal that strengthen the CCP's legitimacy among the public at large."[50]

Some scholars have challenged notions that authoritarian states are inherently brittle systems that require repression and propaganda to make people comply with the authoritarian regime. Adam Przeworski has challenged this, noting that while authoritarian regimes do take actions that serve to enhance regime survival, they also engage in mundane everyday governance and their subjects do not hold a posture towards the regime at all moments of their life. He writes, "People in autocracies do not incessantly live under the shadow of dramatic historical events; they lead everyday routine lives."[51] Similarly, Thomas Pepinsky has challenged the common mental image of an authoritarian state as one of grim totalitarianism, desperate hardship, strict censorship, and dictatorial orders of murder, torture and disappearances. He writes, "life in authoritarian states is mostly boring and tolerable."[52]

Violence

Yale University political scientist Milan Svolik argues that violence is a common characteristic of authoritarian systems. Violence tends to be common in authoritarian states because of a lack of independent third parties empowered to settle disputes between the dictator, regime allies, regime soldiers and the masses.[44]

Authoritarians may resort to measures referred to as coup-proofing (structures that make it hard for any small group to seize power). Coup-proofing strategies include strategically placing family, ethnic, and religious groups in the military; creating of an armed force parallel to the regular military; and developing multiple internal security agencies with overlapping jurisdiction that constantly monitor one another.[53] Research shows that some coup-proofing strategies reduce the risk of coups occurring[54][55] and reduce the likelihood of mass protests.[56] However, coup-proofing reduces military effectiveness,[57][58][59][60] and limits the rents that an incumbent can extract.[61] A 2016 study shows that the implementation of succession rules reduce the occurrence of coup attempts.[62] Succession rules are believed to hamper coordination efforts among coup plotters by assuaging elites who have more to gain by patience than by plotting.[62] According to political scientists Curtis Bell and Jonathan Powell, coup attempts in neighboring countries lead to greater coup-proofing and coup-related repression in a region.[63] A 2017 study finds that countries' coup-proofing strategies are heavily influenced by other countries with similar histories.[64] A 2018 study in the Journal of Peace Research found that leaders who survive coup attempts and respond by purging known and potential rivals are likely to have longer tenures as leaders.[65] A 2019 study in Conflict Management and Peace Science found that personalist dictatorships are more likely to take coup-proofing measures than other authoritarian regimes; the authors argue that this is because "personalists are characterized by weak institutions and narrow support bases, a lack of unifying ideologies and informal links to the ruler."[66]

According to a 2019 study, personalist dictatorships are more repressive than other forms of dictatorship.[67]

Typologies

According to Yale professor Juan José Linz there a three main types of political regimes today: democracies, totalitarian regimes and, sitting between these two, authoritarian regimes (with hybrid regimes).[68][69]

Similar terms

  • An authoritarian regime has "a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people".[70] Unlike totalitarian states, they will allow social and economic institutions not under governmental control,[71] and tend to rely on passive mass acceptance rather than active popular support.[72]
  • An Autocracy is a state/government in which one person possesses "unlimited power".
  • A Totalitarian state is "based on subordination of the individual to the state and strict control of all aspects of the life and productive capacity of the nation especially by coercive measures (such as censorship and terrorism)".[73] and are ruled by a single ruling party made up of loyal supporters.[74] Unlike autocracies, which "seek only to gain absolute political power and to outlaw opposition",[75] totalitarian states are characterized by an official ideology, which "seek only to gain absolute political power and to outlaw opposition",[75] and "seek to dominate every aspect of everyone's life as a prelude to world domination".[75]
  • A Fascist state is autocratic and based on a political philosophy/movement, (such as that of the Fascisti of pre-WWII Italy) "that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition".[76]

Subtypes

Several subtypes of authoritarian regimes have been identified by Linz and others.[77] Linz identified the two most basic subtypes as traditional authoritarian regimes and bureaucratic-military authoritarian regimes:

  • Traditional authoritarian regimes are those "in which the ruling authority (generally a single person)" is maintained in power "through a combination of appeals to traditional legitimacy, patron-client ties and repression, which is carried out by an apparatus bound to the ruling authority through personal loyalties." An example is Ethiopia under Haile Selassie I.[77]
     
    Honoring South Korean President Park Chung-hee in Army Parade at Armed Forces Day on 1 October 1973
  • Bureaucratic-military authoritarian regimes are those "governed by a coalition of military officers and technocrats who act pragmatically (rather than ideologically) within the limits of their bureaucratic mentality."[77] Mark J. Gasiorowski suggests that it is best to distinguish "simple military authoritarian regimes" from "bureaucratic authoritarian regimes" in which "a powerful group of technocrats uses the state apparatus to try to rationalize and develop the economy" such South Korea under Park Chung-hee.[77]

According to Barbara Geddes, there are seven typologies of authoritarian regimes: dominant party regimes, military regime, personalist regimes, monarchies, oligarchic regimes, indirect military regimes, or hybrids of the first three.[78]

Subtypes of authoritarian regimes identified by Linz are corporatist or organic-statistic, racial and ethnic "democracy" and post-totalitarian.[77]

 
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on 25 October 2019

Authoritarian regimes are also sometimes subcategorized by whether they are personalistic or populist.[77] Personalistic authoritarian regimes are characterized by arbitrary rule and authority exercised "mainly through patronage networks and coercion rather than through institutions and formal rules."[77] Personalistic authoritarian regimes have been seen in post-colonial Africa. By contrast, populist authoritarian regimes "are mobilizational regimes in which a strong, charismatic, manipulative leader rules through a coalition involving key lower-class groups."[77] Examples include Argentina under Juan Perón,[77] Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser[77] and Venezuela under Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.[85][86]

A typology of authoritarian regimes by political scientists Brian Lai and Dan Slater includes four categories:

Lai and Slater argue that single‐party regimes are better than military regimes at developing institutions (e.g. mass mobilization, patronage networks ad coordination of elites) that are effective at continuing the regime's incumbency and diminishing domestic challengers; Lai and Slater also argue that military regimes more often initiate military conflicts or undertake other "desperate measures" to maintain control as compared to single‐party regimes.[5][4]

John Duckitt suggests a link between authoritarianism and collectivism, asserting that both stand in opposition to individualism.[87] Duckitt writes that both authoritarianism and collectivism submerge individual rights and goals to group goals, expectations and conformities.[88]

According to Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, authoritarian regimes that are created in social revolutions are far more durable than other kinds of authoritarian regimes.[89]

Authoritarianism and democracy

 
Democracy Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit, 2022.[90] Green countries are democratic, yellow are hybrid regimes, and red are authoritarian governments.

Authoritarianism and democracy are not necessarily fundamental opposites and may be thought of as poles at opposite ends of a scale, so that it is possible for some democracies to possess authoritarian elements, and for an authoritarian system to have democratic elements.[91][92][93] Authoritarian regimes may also be partly responsive to citizen grievances, although this is generally only regarding grievances that do not undermine the stability of the regime.[94][95] An illiberal democracy, or procedural democracy, is distinguished from liberal democracy, or substantive democracy, in that illiberal democracies lack features such as the rule of law, protections for minority groups, an independent judiciary and the real separation of powers.[96][97][98][99]

A further distinction that liberal democracies have rarely made war with one another; research has extended the theory and finds that more democratic countries tend to have few wars (sometimes called militarized interstate disputes) causing fewer battle deaths with one another and that democracies have far fewer civil wars.[100][101]

Research shows that the democratic nations have much less democide or murder by government. Those were also moderately developed nations before applying liberal democratic policies.[102] Research by the World Bank suggests that political institutions are extremely important in determining the prevalence of corruption and that parliamentary systems, political stability and freedom of the press are all associated with lower corruption.[103]

A 2006 study by economist Alberto Abadie has concluded that terrorism is most common in nations with intermediate political freedom. The nations with the least terrorism are the most and least democratic nations, and that "transitions from an authoritarian regime to a democracy may be accompanied by temporary increases in terrorism."[104] Studies in 2013 and 2017 similarly found a nonlinear relationship between political freedom and terrorism, with the most terrorist attacks occurring in partial democracies and the fewest in "strict autocracies and full-fledged democracies."[105] A 2018 study by Amichai Magen demonstrated that liberal democracies and polyarchies not only suffer fewer terrorist attacks as compared to other regime types, but also suffer fewer casualties in terrorist attacks as compared to other regime types, which may be attributed to higher-quality democracies' responsiveness to their citizens' demands, including "the desire for physical safety", resulting in "investment in intelligence, infrastructure protection, first responders, social resilience, and specialized medical care" which averts casualties.[105] Magen also stated that terrorism in closed autocracies sharply increased starting in 2013.[105]

Within national democratic governments, there may be subnational authoritarian enclaves. A prominent examples of this includes the Southern United States after Reconstruction, as well as areas of contemporary Argentina and Mexico.[106]

Competitive authoritarian regimes

Another type of authoritarian regime is the competitive authoritarian regime, a type of civilian regime that arose in the post-Cold War era. In a competitive authoritarian regime, "formal democratic institutions exist and are widely viewed as the primary means of gaining power, but ... incumbents' abuse of the state places them at a significant advantage vis-à-vis their opponents."[107][108] The term was coined by Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way in their 2010 book of the same name to discuss a type of hybrid regime that emerged during and after the Cold War.[107][109]

Competitive authoritarian regimes differ from fully authoritarian regimes in that elections are regularly held, the opposition can openly operate without a high risk of exile or imprisonment and "democratic procedures are sufficiently meaningful for opposition groups to take them seriously as arenas through which to contest for power."[107] Competitive authoritarian regimes lack one or more of the three characteristics of democracies such as free elections (i.e. elections untainted by substantial fraud or voter intimidation); protection of civil liberties (i.e. the freedom of speech, press and association) and an even playing field (in terms of access to resources, the media and legal recourse).[110]

Authoritarianism and fascism

Authoritarianism is considered a core concept of fascism[111][112][113][114] and scholars agree that a fascist regime is foremost an authoritarian form of government, although not all authoritarian regimes are fascist. While authoritarianism is a defining characteristic of fascism, scholars argue that more distinguishing traits are needed to make an authoritarian regime fascist.[115][116][117][118][119][120][121][122][123]

Authoritarianism and totalitarianism

 
Benito Mussolini, the founder of Italian Fascism, called his regime the "Totalitarian State": "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State."[124]

Totalitarianism is a label used by various political scientists to characterize the most tyrannical strain of authoritarian systems; in which the ruling elite, often subservient to a dictator, exert near-total control of the social, political, economic, cultural and religious aspects of society in the territories under its governance.[125]

Linz distinguished new forms of authoritarianism from personalistic dictatorships and totalitarian states, taking Francoist Spain as an example. Unlike personalistic dictatorships, new forms of authoritarianism have institutionalized representation of a variety of actors (in Spain's case, including the military, the Catholic Church, Falange, monarchists, technocrats and others). Unlike totalitarian states, the regime relies on passive mass acceptance rather than popular support.[72] According to Juan Linz the distinction between an authoritarian regime and a totalitarian one is that an authoritarian regime seeks to suffocate politics and political mobilization while totalitarianism seeks to control and utilize them.[68] Authoritarianism primarily differs from totalitarianism in that social and economic institutions exist that are not under governmental control. Building on the work of Yale political scientist Juan Linz, Paul C. Sondrol of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs has examined the characteristics of authoritarian and totalitarian dictators and organized them in a chart:[71]

Totalitarianism Authoritarianism
Charisma High Low
Role conception Leader as function Leader as individual
Ends of power Public Private
Corruption Low High
Official ideology Yes No
Limited pluralism No Yes
Legitimacy Yes No

Sondrol argues that while both authoritarianism and totalitarianism are forms of autocracy, they differ in three key dichotomies:

(1) Unlike their bland and generally unpopular authoritarian brethren, totalitarian dictators develop a charismatic "mystique" and a mass-based, pseudo-democratic interdependence with their followers via the conscious manipulation of a prophetic image.

(2) Concomitant role conceptions differentiate totalitarians from authoritarians. Authoritarians view themselves as individual beings largely content to control and often maintain the status quo. Totalitarian self-conceptions are largely teleological. The tyrant is less a person than an indispensable function to guide and reshape the universe.

(3) Consequently, the utilisation of power for personal aggrandizement is more evident among authoritarians than totalitarians. Lacking the binding appeal of ideology, authoritarians support their rule by a mixture of instilling fear and granting rewards to loyal collaborators, engendering a kleptocracy.[71]

 
Kim Il-Sung, founder of North Korea, established an authoritarian regime which was modeled after other totalitarian countries.[126]

Compared to totalitarianism, "the authoritarian state still maintains a certain distinction between state and society. It is only concerned with political power and as long as that is not contested it gives society a certain degree of liberty. Totalitarianism, on the other hand, invades private life and asphyxiates it."[127] Another distinction is that "authoritarianism is not animated by utopian ideals in the way totalitarianism is. It does not attempt to change the world and human nature."[127] Carl Joachim Friedrich writes that "a totalist ideology, a party reinforced by a secret police, and monopoly control of ... industrial mass society" are the three features of totalitarian regimes that distinguish them from other autocracies.[127]

Greg Yudin, a professor of political philosophy at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, argues "political passivity and civic disengagement" are "key features" of authoritarianism, while totalitarianism relies on "mass mobilization, terror and homogeneity of beliefs".[128]

Economic effects

The effects of political regime types on economic growth have been debated by scholars. A 1993 assessment of existing scholarship led Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi to conclude, "we do not know whether democracy fosters or hinders economic growth."[129] In 2010, Dani Rodrik wrote that democracies outperform autocracies in terms of long-term economic growth, economic stability, adjustments to external economic shocks, human capital investment, and economic equality.[130] A 2019 study by Daron Acemoglu, Suresh Naidu, Pascual Restrepo, and James A. Robinson found that democracy increases GDP per capita by about 20 percent over the long-term.[131] According to Amartya Sen, no functioning liberal democracy has ever suffered a large-scale famine.[132]

Scholars have identified that autocracies may have an advantage when it comes to rapid industrialization.[133] Seymour Martin Lipset argued that low-income authoritarian regimes have certain technocratic "efficiency-enhancing advantages" over low-income democracies that gives authoritarian regimes an advantage in economic development.[134] By contrast, Morton H. Halperin, Joseph T. Siegle and Michael M. Weinstein (2005) argue that democracies "realize superior development performance" over authoritarianism, pointing out that poor democracies are more likely to have steadier economic growth and less likely to experience economic and humanitarian catastrophes (such as refugee crises) than authoritarian regimes; that civil liberties in democracies act as a curb on corruption and misuse of resources; and that democracies are more adaptable than authoritarian regimes.[134]

Studies suggest that several health indicators (life expectancy and infant and maternal mortality) have a stronger and more significant association with democracy than they have with GDP per capita, size of the public sector or income inequality.[135]

Historical trends

Post-World War II anti-authoritarianism

Main article: Anti-authoritarianism

Both World War II (ending in 1945) and the Cold War (ending in 1991) resulted in the replacement of authoritarian regimes by either democratic regimes or regimes that were less authoritarian.

World War II saw the defeat of the Axis powers by the Allied powers. All the Axis powers (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan) had totalitarian or authoritarian governments, and two of the three were replaced by governments based on democratic constitutions. The Allied powers were an alliance of Democratic states and (later) the Communist Soviet Union. At least in Western Europe the initial post-war era embraced pluralism and freedom of expression in areas that had been under control of authoritarian regimes. The memory of fascism and Nazism was denigrated. The new Federal Republic of Germany banned its expression. In reaction to the centralism of the Nazi state, the new constitution of West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) exercised "separation of powers" and placed "law enforcement firmly in the hands" of the sixteen Länder or states of the republic, not with the federal German government, at least not at first.[136]

Culturally there was also a strong sense of anti-authoritarianism based on anti-fascism in Western Europe. This was attributed to the active resistance from occupation and to fears arising from the development of superpowers.[137] Anti-authoritarianism also became associated with countercultural and bohemian movements such as the Beat Generation in the 1950s,[138] the hippies in the 1960s[139] and punks in the 1970s.[140]

In South America, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile and Uruguay moved away from dictatorships to democracy between 1982 and 1990.[141]

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Soviet Union in 1991, the other authoritarian/totalitarian "half" of the Allied Powers of World War II collapsed. This led not so much to revolt against authority in general, but to the belief that authoritarian states (and state control of economies) were outdated.[142] The idea that "liberal democracy was the final form toward which all political striving was directed"[143] became very popular in Western countries and was celebrated in Francis Fukuyama's book The End of History and the Last Man.[143] According to Charles H. Fairbanks Jr., "all the new states that stumbled out of the ruins of the Soviet bloc, except Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, seemed indeed to be moving towards democracy in the early 1990s" as were the countries of East Central Europe and the Balkans.[144]

In December 2010, the Arab Spring arose in response to unrest over economic stagnation but also in opposition to oppressive authoritarian regimes, first in Tunisia, and spreading to Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain and elsewhere. Regimes were toppled in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and partially in Yemen while other countries saw riots, civil wars or insurgencies. Most Arab Spring revolutions failed to lead to enduring democratization. In the decade following the Arab Spring, of the countries in which an autocracy was toppled in the Arab spring, only Tunisia had become a genuine democracy; Egypt backslid to return to a military-run authoritarian state, while Libya, Syria and Yemen experienced devastating civil wars.[145][146]

2000s authoritarian revival

Main article: Democratic backsliding

Since 2005, observers noted what some have called a "democratic recession",[143][147] although some such as Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way have disputed that there was a significant democratic decline before 2013.[147] In 2018, the Freedom House declared that from 2006 to 2018 "113 countries" around the world showed "a net decline" in "political rights and civil liberties" while "only 62" experienced "a net improvement."[148] Its 2020 report marked the fourteenth consecutive year of declining scores.[149] By 2020, all countries marked as "not free" by Freedom House had also developed practices of transnational authoritarianism, aiming to police and control dissent beyond state borders.[150]

International trends in
democracy/authoritarianism
countries becoming
more democratic 		countries becoming
more authoritarian
late 1990s 72 3
2021 15 33
source: V-Dem[151][152]

Writing in 2018, American political journalist David Frum stated: "The hopeful world of the very late 20th century – the world of NAFTA and an expanding NATO; of the World Wide Web 1.0 and liberal interventionism; of the global spread of democracy under leaders such as Václav Havel and Nelson Mandela – now looks battered and delusive."[153]

Michael Ignatieff wrote that Fukuyama's idea of liberalism vanquishing authoritarianism "now looks like a quaint artifact of a vanished unipolar moment"[143] and Fukuyama himself expressed concern.[142] By 2018, only one Arab Spring uprising (that in Tunisia) resulted in a transition to constitutional democratic governance[154] and a "resurgence of authoritarianism and Islamic extremism" in the region[155] was dubbed the Arab Winter.[156][157][158][159][160]

Various explanations have been offered for the new spread of authoritarianism. They include the downside of globalization, and the subsequent rise of populist neo-nationalism,[161] and the success of the Beijing Consensus, i.e. the authoritarian model of the People's Republic of China.[162] In countries such as the United States, factors blamed for the growth of authoritarianism include the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and slower real wage growth[163] as well as social media's elimination of so-called "gatekeepers" of knowledge – the equivalent of disintermediation in economics – so that a large fraction of the population considers to be opinion what were once "viewed as verifiable facts" – including everything from the danger of global warming to the preventing the spread of disease through vaccination – and considers to be fact what are actually only unproven fringe opinions.[164]

In United States politics, the terms "extreme right", "far-right", and "ultra-right" are labels used to describe "militant forms of insurgent revolutionary right ideology and separatist ethnocentric nationalism",[165] such as Christian Identity,[165] the Creativity Movement,[165] the Ku Klux Klan,[165] the National Socialist Movement,[165][166][167] the National Alliance,[165] the Joy of Satan Ministries,[166][167] and the Order of Nine Angles.[168] These far-right groups share conspiracist views of power which are overwhelmingly anti-Semitic and reject pluralist democracy in favor of an organic oligarchy that would unite the perceived homogeneously racial Völkish nation.[165][168] The far-right in the United States is composed of various Neo-fascist, Neo-Nazi, White nationalist, and White supremacist organizations and networks who have been known to refer to an "acceleration" of racial conflict through violent means such as assassinations, murders, terrorist attacks, and societal collapse, in order to achieve the building of a White ethnostate.[168]

Examples

There is no one consensus definition of authoritarianism, but several annual measurements are attempted, including Freedom House's annual Freedom in the World report. Some countries such as Venezuela, among others, that are currently or historically recognized as authoritarian did not become authoritarian upon taking power or fluctuated between an authoritarian, flawed, and Hybrid regime due to periods of democratic backsliding and/or democratization. The time period reflects their time in power rather than the years they were authoritarian regimes. Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia are often regarded as the most infamous examples of totalitarian systems. Some countries such as China and various fascist regimes have also been characterized as totalitarian, with some periods being depicted as more authoritarian, or totalitarian, than others. Contemporary examples of totalitarian states include the Syrian Arab Republic and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[169]

Current

The following is a non-exhaustive list of examples of states currently characterized as authoritarian[according to whom?]. Some countries listed may also be currently listed as a "Hybrid regime" by The Economist Democracy Index, or partly free by Freedom House's Freedom in the World index or reach an intermediate score at V-Dem Democracy Indices.

State Time period Ruling group or person Notes and references
  Afghanistan 1996–2001; 2021– Taliban Totalitarian theocratic state.[170]
  Angola 1975– MPLA [171]
  Azerbaijan 1993– Aliyev family [172][173][174][175][176]
  Bahrain 1783– House of Khalifa [177]
  Bangladesh 2009- Awami League under Sheikh Hasina [178]
  Belarus 1994– Alexander Lukashenko [179][180][181][182][183]
  Burundi 2005– CNDD–FDD [184]
  Cambodia 1979– Cambodian People's Party [185][186]
  Cameroon 1982– Paul Biya [187][188]
  People's Republic of China 1949– Chinese Communist Party Some scholars have deemed the Chinese system "a fragmented authoritarianism" (Lieberthal), "a negotiated state", or "a consultative authoritarian regime."[189] According to research by John Kennedy et al. (2018), Chinese citizens with higher education tend to participate less in local elections and have lower levels of democratic values when compared to those with only compulsory education.[190]
  Republic of the Congo 1969–1992; 1997– Congolese Party of Labour [191]
  Cuba 1959– Communist Party of Cuba [192]
  Djibouti 1977– People's Rally for Progress [193][194]
  Egypt 2014– Abdel Fattah el-Sisi [195]
  El Salvador 2019– Nayib Bukele [196][197]
  Equatorial Guinea 1979– Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo [198]
  Eritrea 1993–[a] Isaias Afwerki Eritrea is considered a totalitarian dictatorship.[199]
  Eswatini 1968– House of Dlamini [200]
  Ethiopia 2018– Abiy Ahmed Abiy Ahmed and his party considered "authoritarian" by some activists and dissents.[201] He is considered by some a "charming dictator".[202][203]
  Hungary 2010– Fidesz [204][205]
  Iran 1979– Assembly of Experts After the Iranian Revolution, Iran became an authoritarian clerical state (nominally an "Islamic republic") based on the absolute authority of the unelected Supreme Leader of Iran, based on the Shia concept of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist.[206][207] In 2000, Juan José Linz wrote that "it is difficult to fit the Iranian regime into the existing typology, as it combines the ideological bent of totalitarianism with the limited pluralism of authoritarianism and holds regular elections in which candidates advocating differing policies and incumbents are often defeated."[208]
  Israel 1996–1999;
2009–2021;
2022– 		Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud [209][210][211][212][213]
  Jordan 1946– Hashemites [214]
  Laos 1975– Lao People's Revolutionary Party [215]
  Morocco 1957– Alaouite dynasty [214][216][217]
  Mozambique 1975– FRELIMO [218]
  Myanmar 1962– Tatmadaw The Tatmadaw allowed a democratically elected administration to exercise some power from 2016 to 2021, without allowing civilian control of the military.[219]
  Nicaragua 1979–1990; 2007– Daniel Ortega [220][221]
  North Korea 1949– Workers' Party of Korea under Kim Dynasty Some scholars consider North Korea to be the most totalitarian country.[222][223]
  Oman 1970– House of Al Said [224]
  Palestine 1964– Palestine Liberation Organization [225]
  Qatar 1971– House of Thani [226]
  Russia 1991– Boris Yeltsin, United Russia under Vladimir Putin [227][228][229][230][231][232][233]
  Rwanda 2000– Paul Kagame [234]
  Saudi Arabia 1934– House of Saud [235]
  Singapore 1965– People's Action Party Dominant-party system[236][237]
  South Sudan 2011– Sudan People's Liberation Movement under Salva Kiir Mayardit [238]
  Republika Srpska
(part of   Bosnia and Herzegovina) 		2006– Milorad Dodik [239][240][241]
  Syria 1963– Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region under al-Assad family Totalitarian police state[242][243][244] under a hereditary dictatorship
  Sudan 2021– Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Failed state in a power vacuum[245]
  Tajikistan 1994– Emomali Rahmon [246]
  Togo 1967– Eyadema Family [247]
  Turkey 2003– Justice and Development Party under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan It has been described by observers as a "competitive authoritarian regime."[248]
  Turkmenistan 2006– Berdimuhamedow Family Effectively a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship.[249][250]
  United Arab Emirates 1971– Royal families of the United Arab Emirates [251][252]
  Uganda 1986– Yoweri Museveni [253]
  Uzbekistan 1989– Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party [254][255][256]
  Venezuela 1999– United Socialist Party of Venezuela [257]
  Vietnam 1976– Vietnamese Communist Party [258]
  Zimbabwe 1980– ZANU-PF [259][260]

Historical

The following is a non-exhaustive list of examples of states which were historically authoritarian.

State Time period Ruling group or person Notes and references
  Algeria 1999–2019 Abdelaziz Bouteflika [261]
  Argentina 1946–1955 Justicialist Party under Juan Perón See also Peronism.[262][263]
1966–1973 Military government See also the Argentine Revolution.[262][263]
1973–1976 Justicialist Party under Juan and Isabel Perón [262][263]
1976–1983 Jorge Rafael Videla See also the National Reorganization Process.[262][263]
  Austria 1933–1938 Christian Social Party under Engelbert Dollfuß and Fatherland Front under Kurt Schuschnigg See also the Federal State of Austria and Ständestaat.
  Brazil 1937–1945 Getúlio Vargas See also the Vargas Era.[264]
1964–1985 Military dictatorship in Brazil Started with the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état.[264]
  Burma 1962–2011 Military government and the Burma Socialist Programme Party Started with the 1962 Burmese coup d'état and ended with the 2011–2012 Burmese political reforms.[265]
  Burundi 1961–1993 UPRONA
  Confederate States of America 1861–1865 Jefferson Davis Herrenvolk republic with a "democracy of the white race".[266][267]
  Chad 1982–1990 Hissène Habré Habré was deposed by Idriss Déby, he was tried in Senegal for crimes against his country and died in prison months after the man who removed him from power died in combat.
  Chile 1973–1990 Government Junta under Augusto Pinochet Started with the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.[268]
  Republic of China 1927–1949 Kuomintang and Nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek The Republic of China on Taiwan is listed further below.
  Democratic Republic of the Congo 1997–2019 Laurent-Désiré Kabila and Joseph Kabila Zaire is listed further below.[269]
   Croatia 1941–1945 Ustaše under Ante Pavelić See also Independent State of Croatia
1990–1999 Croatian Democratic Union under Franjo Tuđman [270][271]
  Czechoslovakia 1938–1939 Party of National Unity
  Egypt 1952–2011 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and Hosni Mubarak [272]
  Equatorial Guinea 1968–1979 Francisco Macias Nguema
  Ethiopia 1974–1991 Mengistu Haile Mariam and the Workers' Party of Ethiopia [273]
  Ethiopia 1991–2019 Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front [274]
  Fiji 2006–2022 FijiFirst[b] [275][276][277][278]
  France 1793–1794 Committee of Public Safety, a provisional government during the Reign of Terror under Maximilien Robespierre. See also the French Revolution.
  Gabon 1961–2023 Gabonese Democratic Party Ali Bongo is overthrown in a military coup.
  Gambia 1994–2017 Yahya Jammeh Jammeh is overthrown by democratic elections and is forced to resign.
  Nazi Germany 1933–1945 National Socialist German Workers' Party See also Nazism.
  Guinea 1958–2021 Ahmed Sekou Touré, Lansana Conté, Moussa Dadis Camara and Alpha Condé Guinea was marked by a series of authoritarian generations.
  Guinea-Bissau 1980–1999 Joao Bernardo Vieira Nino Vieira would govern in an authoritarian manner in the 80s and 90s until his overthrow, in 2005 he returned to the presidency until his assassination.
  Hungary 1920–1944 Miklós Horthy and the Unity Party [279]
  Indonesia 1959–1998 Sukarno and Suharto See also the Guided Democracy era and the New Order.
  Iran 1925–1979 Pahlavi dynasty [280]
  Iraq 1968–2003 Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region under Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and Saddam Hussein
  Empire of Japan 1931-1945 Hirohito and the Imperial Rule Assistance Association
  Liberia 1886–1980 True Whig Party Party that ruled Liberia for more than 100 years and the monopoly was overthrown by the 1980 Liberian coup.
1980–1990 Samuel Doe The Liberian president ends up captured and executed for a long time in the middle of a Civil war.
  Fascist Italy 1922–1943 National Fascist Party [281]
  Kazakhstan 1990–2022 Amanat Formelly named Nur Otan. The incumbent president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev renounced his party membership, establishing in the amendments of the second republic that no president should have affiliation with any party.[187]
  Libya 1969–2011 Muammar Gaddafi Started with the 1969 Libyan coup d'état and ended with the 2011 Libyan Civil War.[282]
  Lithuania 1926–1940 Antanas Smetona Ended in the Soviet occupation.[283]
  Macedonia 2006–2016 Nikola Gruevski [284][285]
  Mali 1968–1991 Moussa Traoré Moussa is deposed in the 1991 Malian coup d'état and sentenced to death twice, exonerated in May 2002.
  Massachusetts Bay Colony 1630–1691 John Winthrop [286][287]
  Mexico 17 May–4 June 1833 Santa Anna
18 June–5 July 1833
27 October–December 1833
1834–1835
20 March–10 July 1839
1841–1842
14 May–6 September 1843
4 June–12 September 1844
21 March–2 April 1847
20 May–15 September 1847
1853–1855
1876–1911 Porfirio Díaz, Juan Méndez, and Manuel Flores. See also Porfiriato.
1929–2000 PRI Mexico was very authoritarian when PRI was the ruling party in Mexico but in 2000 after about 70 years of ruling they lost the 2000 Mexican presidential election. They eventually came back to power in 2012 by winning the Mexican presidential election but eventually lost power in the 2018 Mexican presidential election as their candidate finished 3rd. See also Tlatelolco massacre and the rigged 1988 Mexican presidential election.
  Ottoman Empire 1878–1908 Abdul Hamid II
1913–1918 The Three Pashas
  Montenegro 1990–2023 Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro, under Milo Đukanović [288][289][290][291][292]
  Nicaragua 1936–1979 Somoza Family The Somoza clan loses power in the Sandinista revolution.
  Philippines 1965–1986 Ferdinand Marcos Ended with the People Power Revolution.
2016–2022 Rodrigo Duterte [293][294]
  Poland 1926–1939 Sanation See also the May Coup.
  Portugal 1926–1933 Military government See also the National Dictatorship.
1933–1974 Estado Novo regime under António de Oliveira Salazar and Marcelo Caetano Ended with the Carnation Revolution.[295]
  Russian State 1918–1920 White movement under Alexander Kolchak
  Rwanda 1961–1994 Gregoire Kayibanda and Juvenal Habyarimana
  Somalia 1969–1991 Siad Barre
  South Africa 1948–1994 National Party Ended with the end of apartheid.[296][297]
  South Korea 1948–1960 Syngman Rhee [298][299]
1961–1987 Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan
  Francoist Spain 1936–1978 Francisco Franco and Juan Carlos I of Spain Until the Spanish transition to democracy.[300]
  Sudan 1969–2019 Jaafar Nimeiry and Omar al-Bashir Ousted in 2019 Sudanese coup d'état.[187]
  Taiwan 1945–1987 Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo The Republic of China (1927–1949) is listed further above.[301]
  Thailand 1932–1933 People's Party under Phraya Phahon and Plaek Phibunsongkhram On 1 April 1933 Prime Minister Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada staged a coup by decree, closing parliament, abstaining from using certain sections of the Constitution, and exiling Pridi Banomyong temporarily left the country, which left the People's Party powerless for a period. Until 20 June 1933 there was a coup d'état by the People's Party. Thus causing the People's Party to return to power once again.
1933–1944
1948–1957 Plaek Phibunsongkhram Ended with the 1957 Thai coup d'état.
1958–1973 Sarit Thanarat and Thanom Kittikachorn Ended with the 1973 Thai popular uprising.
2014–2023 Prayut Chan-o-cha [302]
  Tunisia 1987–2011 Zine El Abidine Ben Ali See also Tunisian Revolution.
  Turkey 1923–1950 Republican People's Party [303][304]
  Turkmenistan 1991–2006 Democratic Party of Turkmenistan under Saparmurat Niyazov Effectively a totalitarian dictatorship.[249][250]
  Soviet Union 1922–1991 Communist Party of the Soviet Union See also authoritarian socialism.
  Ukraine 1992–2005 Leonid Kuchma Ended in the Orange Revolution[according to whom?].
2010–2014 Party of Regions under Viktor Yanukovych Ended in the Revolution of Dignity[according to whom?].
  Ukrainian State 1918 Pavlo Skoropadskyi Started with the 1918 Ukrainian coup d'état and ended with the Anti-Hetman Uprising.
   Yugoslavia 1929–1934 Alexander I and the JRSD See also the 6 January Dictatorship.
1934–1941 Milan Stojadinović and the JRZ
1944–1990 League of Communists of Yugoslavia under Josip Broz Tito (–1980) See also the death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito.[305][306]
  Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1992–2000 Socialist Party of Serbia under Slobodan Milošević See also the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević.[307][308]
  Zaire 1965–1997 Mobutu Sese Seko The Democratic Republic of the Congo after 1997 is listed above.[269]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Eritrea gained de facto independence in 1991; de jure independence was achieved in 1993.
  2. ^ While FijiFirst's leader, Frank Bainimarama, still forms government in Fiji, democratic elections were held again in 2014 after eight years without elections following the 2006 Fijian coup d'état.

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authoritarianism, this, article, about, authoritarianism, political, science, organizational, studies, authoritarianism, psychology, authoritarian, personality, form, government, where, power, held, single, individual, autocracy, political, system, characteriz. This article is about authoritarianism in political science and organizational studies For authoritarianism in psychology see Authoritarian personality For a form of government where power is held by a single individual see Autocracy Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of democracy civil liberties and political plurality 1 It involves the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo and reductions in the rule of law separation of powers and democratic voting 2 3 Political scientists have created many typologies describing variations of authoritarian forms of government 3 Authoritarian regimes may be either autocratic or oligarchic and may be based upon the rule of a party or the military 4 5 States that have a blurred boundary between democracy and authoritarianism have some times been characterized as hybrid democracies hybrid regimes or competitive authoritarian states 6 7 8 The political scientist Juan Linz in an influential 9 1964 work An Authoritarian Regime Spain defined authoritarianism as possessing four qualities Limited political pluralism which is achieved with constraints on the legislature political parties and interest groups Political legitimacy based on appeals to emotion and identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat easily recognizable societal problems such as underdevelopment or insurgency Minimal political mobilization and suppression of anti regime activities Ill defined executive powers often vague and shifting used to extend the power of the executive 10 11 Minimally defined an authoritarian government lacks free and competitive direct elections to legislatures free and competitive direct or indirect elections for executives or both 12 13 14 15 Broadly defined authoritarian states include countries that lack civil liberties such as freedom of religion or countries in which the government and the opposition do not alternate in power at least once following free elections 16 Authoritarian states might contain nominally democratic institutions such as political parties legislatures and elections which are managed to entrench authoritarian rule and can feature fraudulent non competitive elections 17 Since 1946 the share of authoritarian states in the international political system increased until the mid 1970s but declined from then until the year 2000 18 Contents 1 Characteristics 1 1 Constitutions in authoritarian regimes 1 2 Economy 1 3 Institutions 1 4 Interactions with other elites and the masses 1 5 Manipulation of information 1 6 Systemic weakness and resilience 1 7 Violence 2 Typologies 2 1 Similar terms 2 2 Subtypes 2 3 Authoritarianism and democracy 2 3 1 Competitive authoritarian regimes 2 4 Authoritarianism and fascism 2 5 Authoritarianism and totalitarianism 3 Economic effects 4 Historical trends 4 1 Post World War II anti authoritarianism 4 2 2000s authoritarian revival 5 Examples 5 1 Current 5 2 Historical 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 External linksCharacteristicsAuthoritarianism is characterized by highly concentrated and centralized government power maintained by political repression and the exclusion of potential or supposed challengers by armed force It uses political parties and mass organizations to mobilize people around the goals of the regime 19 Adam Przeworski has theorized that authoritarian equilibrium rests mainly on lies fear and economic prosperity 20 However Daniel A Bell and Wang Pei used China s experience with COVID 19 to argue that the categories are not so clear cut 21 Authoritarianism also tends to embrace the informal and unregulated exercise of political power a leadership that is self appointed and even if elected cannot be displaced by citizens free choice among competitors the arbitrary deprivation of civil liberties and little tolerance for meaningful opposition 19 A range of social controls also attempt to stifle civil society while political stability is maintained by control over and support of the armed forces a bureaucracy staffed by the regime and creation of allegiance through various means of socialization and indoctrination 19 Authoritarianism is marked by indefinite political tenure of the ruler or ruling party often in a one party state or other authority 19 The transition from an authoritarian system to a more democratic form of government is referred to as democratization 19 Constitutions in authoritarian regimes Authoritarian regimes often adopt the institutional trappings of democracies such as constitutions 22 Constitutions in authoritarian states may serve a variety of roles including operating manual describing how the government is to function billboard signal of regime s intent blueprint outline of future regime plans and window dressing material designed to obfuscate such as provisions setting forth freedoms that are not honored in practice 23 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 25 Unlike democratic constitutions authoritarian constitutions do not set direct limits on executive authority however in some cases such documents may function as ways for elites to protect their own property rights or constrain autocrats behavior 26 The Soviet Russia Constitution of 1918 the first charter of the new Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic RSFSR was described by Vladimir Lenin as a revolutionary document It was he said unlike any constitution drafted by a nation state 27 The concept of authoritarian constitutionalism has been developed by legal scholar Mark Tushnet 28 Tushnet distinguishes authoritarian constitutionalist regimes from liberal constitutionalist regimes the sort familiar in the modern West with core commitments to human rights and self governance implemented by means of varying institutional devices and from purely authoritarian regimes which reject the idea of human rights or constraints on leaders power 28 He describes authoritarian constitutionalist regimes as 1 authoritarian dominant party states that 2 impose sanctions such as libel judgments against but do not arbitrarily arrest political dissidents 3 permit reasonably open discussion and criticism of its policies 4 hold reasonably free and fair elections without systemic intimidation but with close attention to such matters as the drawing of election districts and the creation of party lists to ensure as best it can that it will prevail and by a substantial margin 5 reflect at least occasional responsiveness to public opinion and 6 create mechanisms to ensure that the amount of dissent does not exceed the level it regards as desirable Tushnet cites Singapore as an example of an authoritarian constitutionalist state and connects the concept to that of hybrid regimes 28 Economy Scholars such as Seymour Lipset 29 Carles Boix Susan Stokes 30 Dietrich Rueschemeyer Evelyne Stephens and John Stephens 31 argue that economic development increases the likelihood of democratization Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi argue that while economic development makes democracies less likely to turn authoritarian there is insufficient evidence to conclude that development causes democratization turning an authoritarian state into a democracy 32 Eva Bellin argues that under certain circumstances the bourgeoise and labor are more likely to favor democratization but less so under other circumstances 33 Economic development can boost public support for authoritarian regimes in the short to medium term 34 According to Michael Albertus most land reform programs tend to be implemented by authoritarian regimes that subsequently withhold property rights from the beneficiaries of the land reform Authoritarian regimes do so to gain coercive leverage over rural populations 35 Institutions Authoritarian regimes typically incorporate similar political institutions to that of democratic regimes although they may serve different purposes Democratic regimes are marked by institutions that are essential to economic development and individual freedom including representative legislatures and competitive political parties 36 37 Most authoritarian regimes embrace these political structures but use it in a way that reinforces their power 36 Authoritarian legislatures for example are forums through which leaders may enhance their bases of support share power and monitor elites 38 Additionally authoritarian party systems are extremely unstable and unconducive to party development largely due to monopolistic patterns of authority 39 Democratic and authoritarian arguably differ most prominently in their elections Democratic elections are generally inclusive competitive and fair 40 In most instances the elected leader is appointed to act on behalf of the general will Authoritarian elections on the other hand are frequently subject to fraud and extreme constraints on the participation of opposing parties 39 Autocratic leaders employ tactics like murdering political opposition and paying election monitors to ensure victory 36 41 Despite this the proportion of authoritarian regimes with elections and support parties has risen in recent years 36 This is largely due to the increasing popularity of democracies and electoral autocracies leading authoritarian regimes to imitate democratic regimes in hopes of receiving foreign aid and dodging criticism 36 42 According to a 2018 study most party led dictatorships regularly hold popular elections Prior to the 1990s most of these elections had no alternative parties or candidates for voters to choose Since the end of the Cold War about two thirds of elections in authoritarian systems allow for some opposition but the elections are structured in a way to heavily favor the incumbent authoritarian regime 43 Hindrances to free and fair elections in authoritarian systems may include 43 Control of the media by the authoritarian incumbents Interference with opposition campaigning Electoral fraud Violence against opposition Large scale spending by the state in favor of the incumbents Permitting of some parties but not others Prohibitions on opposition parties but not independent candidates Allowing competition between candidates within the incumbent party but not those who are not in the incumbent party Interactions with other elites and the masses The foundations of stable authoritarian rule are that the authoritarian prevents contestation from the masses and other elites The authoritarian regime may use co optation or repression or carrots and sticks to prevent revolts 44 45 Authoritarian rule entails a balancing act whereby the ruler has to maintain the support of other elites frequently through the distribution of state and societal resources and the support of the public through distribution of the same resources the authoritarian rule is at risk if the balancing act is lopsided as it risks a coup by the elites or an uprising by the mass public 46 47 Manipulation of information Main articles Political censorship and Propaganda According to a 2019 study by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman authoritarian regimes have over time become less reliant on violence and mass repression to maintain control The study shows instead that authoritarians have increasingly resorted to manipulation of information as a means of control Authoritarians increasingly seek to create an appearance of good performance conceal state repression and imitate democracy 48 While authoritarian regimes invest considerably in propaganda out of a belief that it enhances regime survival scholars have offered mixed views as to whether propaganda is effective 49 Systemic weakness and resilience Andrew J Nathan notes that regime theory holds that authoritarian systems are inherently fragile because of weak legitimacy overreliance on coercion over centralization of decision making and the predominance of personal power over institutional norms Few authoritarian regimes be they communist fascist corporatist or personalist have managed to conduct orderly peaceful timely and stable successions 50 Political scientist Theodore M Vestal writes that authoritarian political systems may be weakened through inadequate responsiveness to either popular or elite demands and that the authoritarian tendency to respond to challenges by exerting tighter control instead of by adapting may compromise the legitimacy of an authoritarian state and lead to its collapse 19 One exception to this general trend is the endurance of the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party which has been unusually resilient among authoritarian regimes Nathan posits that this can be attributed to four factors such as 1 the increasingly norm bound nature of its succession politics 2 the increase in meritocratic as opposed to factional considerations in the promotion of political elites 3 the differentiation and functional specialization of institutions within the regime and 4 the establishment of institutions for political participation and appeal that strengthen the CCP s legitimacy among the public at large 50 Some scholars have challenged notions that authoritarian states are inherently brittle systems that require repression and propaganda to make people comply with the authoritarian regime Adam Przeworski has challenged this noting that while authoritarian regimes do take actions that serve to enhance regime survival they also engage in mundane everyday governance and their subjects do not hold a posture towards the regime at all moments of their life He writes People in autocracies do not incessantly live under the shadow of dramatic historical events they lead everyday routine lives 51 Similarly Thomas Pepinsky has challenged the common mental image of an authoritarian state as one of grim totalitarianism desperate hardship strict censorship and dictatorial orders of murder torture and disappearances He writes life in authoritarian states is mostly boring and tolerable 52 Violence Yale University political scientist Milan Svolik argues that violence is a common characteristic of authoritarian systems Violence tends to be common in authoritarian states because of a lack of independent third parties empowered to settle disputes between the dictator regime allies regime soldiers and the masses 44 Authoritarians may resort to measures referred to as coup proofing structures that make it hard for any small group to seize power Coup proofing strategies include strategically placing family ethnic and religious groups in the military creating of an armed force parallel to the regular military and developing multiple internal security agencies with overlapping jurisdiction that constantly monitor one another 53 Research shows that some coup proofing strategies reduce the risk of coups occurring 54 55 and reduce the likelihood of mass protests 56 However coup proofing reduces military effectiveness 57 58 59 60 and limits the rents that an incumbent can extract 61 A 2016 study shows that the implementation of succession rules reduce the occurrence of coup attempts 62 Succession rules are believed to hamper coordination efforts among coup plotters by assuaging elites who have more to gain by patience than by plotting 62 According to political scientists Curtis Bell and Jonathan Powell coup attempts in neighboring countries lead to greater coup proofing and coup related repression in a region 63 A 2017 study finds that countries coup proofing strategies are heavily influenced by other countries with similar histories 64 A 2018 study in the Journal of Peace Research found that leaders who survive coup attempts and respond by purging known and potential rivals are likely to have longer tenures as leaders 65 A 2019 study in Conflict Management and Peace Science found that personalist dictatorships are more likely to take coup proofing measures than other authoritarian regimes the authors argue that this is because personalists are characterized by weak institutions and narrow support bases a lack of unifying ideologies and informal links to the ruler 66 According to a 2019 study personalist dictatorships are more repressive than other forms of dictatorship 67 TypologiesAccording to Yale professor Juan Jose Linz there a three main types of political regimes today democracies totalitarian regimes and sitting between these two authoritarian regimes with hybrid regimes 68 69 Similar terms An authoritarian regime has a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people 70 Unlike totalitarian states they will allow social and economic institutions not under governmental control 71 and tend to rely on passive mass acceptance rather than active popular support 72 An Autocracy is a state government in which one person possesses unlimited power A Totalitarian state is based on subordination of the individual to the state and strict control of all aspects of the life and productive capacity of the nation especially by coercive measures such as censorship and terrorism 73 and are ruled by a single ruling party made up of loyal supporters 74 Unlike autocracies which seek only to gain absolute political power and to outlaw opposition 75 totalitarian states are characterized by an official ideology which seek only to gain absolute political power and to outlaw opposition 75 and seek to dominate every aspect of everyone s life as a prelude to world domination 75 A Fascist state is autocratic and based on a political philosophy movement such as that of the Fascisti of pre WWII Italy that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader severe economic and social regimentation and forcible suppression of opposition 76 Subtypes Several subtypes of authoritarian regimes have been identified by Linz and others 77 Linz identified the two most basic subtypes as traditional authoritarian regimes and bureaucratic military authoritarian regimes Traditional authoritarian regimes are those in which the ruling authority generally a single person is maintained in power through a combination of appeals to traditional legitimacy patron client ties and repression which is carried out by an apparatus bound to the ruling authority through personal loyalties An example is Ethiopia under Haile Selassie I 77 nbsp Honoring South Korean President Park Chung hee in Army Parade at Armed Forces Day on 1 October 1973 Bureaucratic military authoritarian regimes are those governed by a coalition of military officers and technocrats who act pragmatically rather than ideologically within the limits of their bureaucratic mentality 77 Mark J Gasiorowski suggests that it is best to distinguish simple military authoritarian regimes from bureaucratic authoritarian regimes in which a powerful group of technocrats uses the state apparatus to try to rationalize and develop the economy such South Korea under Park Chung hee 77 According to Barbara Geddes there are seven typologies of authoritarian regimes dominant party regimes military regime personalist regimes monarchies oligarchic regimes indirect military regimes or hybrids of the first three 78 Subtypes of authoritarian regimes identified by Linz are corporatist or organic statistic racial and ethnic democracy and post totalitarian 77 Corporatist authoritarian regimes are those in which corporatism institutions are used extensively by the state to coopt and demobilize powerful interest groups This type has been studied most extensively in Latin America 77 Racial and ethnic democracies are those in which certain racial or ethnic groups enjoy full democratic rights while others are largely or entirely denied those rights such as in South Africa under apartheid 77 Post totalitarian authoritarian regimes are those in which totalitarian institutions such as the party secret police and state controlled mass media 79 remain but where ideological orthodoxy has declined in favor of routinization repression has declined the state s top leadership is less personalized and more secure and the level of mass mobilization has declined substantially 77 Examples include the Russian Federation and Soviet Eastern Bloc states in the mid 1980s 77 The post Mao Zedong People s Republic of China was viewed as post totalitarian in the 1990s and early 2000s with a limited degree of increase in pluralism and civil society 80 81 however in the 2010s particularly after Xi Jinping succeeded as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and rose to power in 2012 Chinese state repression sharply increased aided by digital control and mass surveillance 82 83 84 nbsp Azerbaijan s President Ilham Aliyev and Venezuela s President Nicolas Maduro on 25 October 2019Authoritarian regimes are also sometimes subcategorized by whether they are personalistic or populist 77 Personalistic authoritarian regimes are characterized by arbitrary rule and authority exercised mainly through patronage networks and coercion rather than through institutions and formal rules 77 Personalistic authoritarian regimes have been seen in post colonial Africa By contrast populist authoritarian regimes are mobilizational regimes in which a strong charismatic manipulative leader rules through a coalition involving key lower class groups 77 Examples include Argentina under Juan Peron 77 Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser 77 and Venezuela under Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro 85 86 A typology of authoritarian regimes by political scientists Brian Lai and Dan Slater includes four categories machine oligarchic party dictatorships bossism autocratic party dictatorships juntas oligarchic military dictatorships and strongman autocratic military dictatorships 5 Lai and Slater argue that single party regimes are better than military regimes at developing institutions e g mass mobilization patronage networks ad coordination of elites that are effective at continuing the regime s incumbency and diminishing domestic challengers Lai and Slater also argue that military regimes more often initiate military conflicts or undertake other desperate measures to maintain control as compared to single party regimes 5 4 John Duckitt suggests a link between authoritarianism and collectivism asserting that both stand in opposition to individualism 87 Duckitt writes that both authoritarianism and collectivism submerge individual rights and goals to group goals expectations and conformities 88 According to Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way authoritarian regimes that are created in social revolutions are far more durable than other kinds of authoritarian regimes 89 Authoritarianism and democracy nbsp Democracy Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit 2022 90 Green countries are democratic yellow are hybrid regimes and red are authoritarian governments Authoritarianism and democracy are not necessarily fundamental opposites and may be thought of as poles at opposite ends of a scale so that it is possible for some democracies to possess authoritarian elements and for an authoritarian system to have democratic elements 91 92 93 Authoritarian regimes may also be partly responsive to citizen grievances although this is generally only regarding grievances that do not undermine the stability of the regime 94 95 An illiberal democracy or procedural democracy is distinguished from liberal democracy or substantive democracy in that illiberal democracies lack features such as the rule of law protections for minority groups an independent judiciary and the real separation of powers 96 97 98 99 A further distinction that liberal democracies have rarely made war with one another research has extended the theory and finds that more democratic countries tend to have few wars sometimes called militarized interstate disputes causing fewer battle deaths with one another and that democracies have far fewer civil wars 100 101 Research shows that the democratic nations have much less democide or murder by government Those were also moderately developed nations before applying liberal democratic policies 102 Research by the World Bank suggests that political institutions are extremely important in determining the prevalence of corruption and that parliamentary systems political stability and freedom of the press are all associated with lower corruption 103 A 2006 study by economist Alberto Abadie has concluded that terrorism is most common in nations with intermediate political freedom The nations with the least terrorism are the most and least democratic nations and that transitions from an authoritarian regime to a democracy may be accompanied by temporary increases in terrorism 104 Studies in 2013 and 2017 similarly found a nonlinear relationship between political freedom and terrorism with the most terrorist attacks occurring in partial democracies and the fewest in strict autocracies and full fledged democracies 105 A 2018 study by Amichai Magen demonstrated that liberal democracies and polyarchies not only suffer fewer terrorist attacks as compared to other regime types but also suffer fewer casualties in terrorist attacks as compared to other regime types which may be attributed to higher quality democracies responsiveness to their citizens demands including the desire for physical safety resulting in investment in intelligence infrastructure protection first responders social resilience and specialized medical care which averts casualties 105 Magen also stated that terrorism in closed autocracies sharply increased starting in 2013 105 Within national democratic governments there may be subnational authoritarian enclaves A prominent examples of this includes the Southern United States after Reconstruction as well as areas of contemporary Argentina and Mexico 106 Competitive authoritarian regimes Another type of authoritarian regime is the competitive authoritarian regime a type of civilian regime that arose in the post Cold War era In a competitive authoritarian regime formal democratic institutions exist and are widely viewed as the primary means of gaining power but incumbents abuse of the state places them at a significant advantage vis a vis their opponents 107 108 The term was coined by Steven Levitsky and Lucan A Way in their 2010 book of the same name to discuss a type of hybrid regime that emerged during and after the Cold War 107 109 Competitive authoritarian regimes differ from fully authoritarian regimes in that elections are regularly held the opposition can openly operate without a high risk of exile or imprisonment and democratic procedures are sufficiently meaningful for opposition groups to take them seriously as arenas through which to contest for power 107 Competitive authoritarian regimes lack one or more of the three characteristics of democracies such as free elections i e elections untainted by substantial fraud or voter intimidation protection of civil liberties i e the freedom of speech press and association and an even playing field in terms of access to resources the media and legal recourse 110 Authoritarianism and fascism Authoritarianism is considered a core concept of fascism 111 112 113 114 and scholars agree that a fascist regime is foremost an authoritarian form of government although not all authoritarian regimes are fascist While authoritarianism is a defining characteristic of fascism scholars argue that more distinguishing traits are needed to make an authoritarian regime fascist 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 Authoritarianism and totalitarianism nbsp Benito Mussolini the founder of Italian Fascism called his regime the Totalitarian State Everything in the State nothing outside the State nothing against the State 124 Totalitarianism is a label used by various political scientists to characterize the most tyrannical strain of authoritarian systems in which the ruling elite often subservient to a dictator exert near total control of the social political economic cultural and religious aspects of society in the territories under its governance 125 Linz distinguished new forms of authoritarianism from personalistic dictatorships and totalitarian states taking Francoist Spain as an example Unlike personalistic dictatorships new forms of authoritarianism have institutionalized representation of a variety of actors in Spain s case including the military the Catholic Church Falange monarchists technocrats and others Unlike totalitarian states the regime relies on passive mass acceptance rather than popular support 72 According to Juan Linz the distinction between an authoritarian regime and a totalitarian one is that an authoritarian regime seeks to suffocate politics and political mobilization while totalitarianism seeks to control and utilize them 68 Authoritarianism primarily differs from totalitarianism in that social and economic institutions exist that are not under governmental control Building on the work of Yale political scientist Juan Linz Paul C Sondrol of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs has examined the characteristics of authoritarian and totalitarian dictators and organized them in a chart 71 Totalitarianism AuthoritarianismCharisma High LowRole conception Leader as function Leader as individualEnds of power Public PrivateCorruption Low HighOfficial ideology Yes NoLimited pluralism No YesLegitimacy Yes NoSondrol argues that while both authoritarianism and totalitarianism are forms of autocracy they differ in three key dichotomies 1 Unlike their bland and generally unpopular authoritarian brethren totalitarian dictators develop a charismatic mystique and a mass based pseudo democratic interdependence with their followers via the conscious manipulation of a prophetic image 2 Concomitant role conceptions differentiate totalitarians from authoritarians Authoritarians view themselves as individual beings largely content to control and often maintain the status quo Totalitarian self conceptions are largely teleological The tyrant is less a person than an indispensable function to guide and reshape the universe 3 Consequently the utilisation of power for personal aggrandizement is more evident among authoritarians than totalitarians Lacking the binding appeal of ideology authoritarians support their rule by a mixture of instilling fear and granting rewards to loyal collaborators engendering a kleptocracy 71 nbsp Kim Il Sung founder of North Korea established an authoritarian regime which was modeled after other totalitarian countries 126 Compared to totalitarianism the authoritarian state still maintains a certain distinction between state and society It is only concerned with political power and as long as that is not contested it gives society a certain degree of liberty Totalitarianism on the other hand invades private life and asphyxiates it 127 Another distinction is that authoritarianism is not animated by utopian ideals in the way totalitarianism is It does not attempt to change the world and human nature 127 Carl Joachim Friedrich writes that a totalist ideology a party reinforced by a secret police and monopoly control of industrial mass society are the three features of totalitarian regimes that distinguish them from other autocracies 127 Greg Yudin a professor of political philosophy at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences argues political passivity and civic disengagement are key features of authoritarianism while totalitarianism relies on mass mobilization terror and homogeneity of beliefs 128 Economic effectsThe effects of political regime types on economic growth have been debated by scholars A 1993 assessment of existing scholarship led Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi to conclude we do not know whether democracy fosters or hinders economic growth 129 In 2010 Dani Rodrik wrote that democracies outperform autocracies in terms of long term economic growth economic stability adjustments to external economic shocks human capital investment and economic equality 130 A 2019 study by Daron Acemoglu Suresh Naidu Pascual Restrepo and James A Robinson found that democracy increases GDP per capita by about 20 percent over the long term 131 According to Amartya Sen no functioning liberal democracy has ever suffered a large scale famine 132 Scholars have identified that autocracies may have an advantage when it comes to rapid industrialization 133 Seymour Martin Lipset argued that low income authoritarian regimes have certain technocratic efficiency enhancing advantages over low income democracies that gives authoritarian regimes an advantage in economic development 134 By contrast Morton H Halperin Joseph T Siegle and Michael M Weinstein 2005 argue that democracies realize superior development performance over authoritarianism pointing out that poor democracies are more likely to have steadier economic growth and less likely to experience economic and humanitarian catastrophes such as refugee crises than authoritarian regimes that civil liberties in democracies act as a curb on corruption and misuse of resources and that democracies are more adaptable than authoritarian regimes 134 Studies suggest that several health indicators life expectancy and infant and maternal mortality have a stronger and more significant association with democracy than they have with GDP per capita size of the public sector or income inequality 135 Historical trendsPost World War II anti authoritarianism Main article Anti authoritarianism Both World War II ending in 1945 and the Cold War ending in 1991 resulted in the replacement of authoritarian regimes by either democratic regimes or regimes that were less authoritarian World War II saw the defeat of the Axis powers by the Allied powers All the Axis powers Nazi Germany Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan had totalitarian or authoritarian governments and two of the three were replaced by governments based on democratic constitutions The Allied powers were an alliance of Democratic states and later the Communist Soviet Union At least in Western Europe the initial post war era embraced pluralism and freedom of expression in areas that had been under control of authoritarian regimes The memory of fascism and Nazism was denigrated The new Federal Republic of Germany banned its expression In reaction to the centralism of the Nazi state the new constitution of West Germany Federal Republic of Germany exercised separation of powers and placed law enforcement firmly in the hands of the sixteen Lander or states of the republic not with the federal German government at least not at first 136 Culturally there was also a strong sense of anti authoritarianism based on anti fascism in Western Europe This was attributed to the active resistance from occupation and to fears arising from the development of superpowers 137 Anti authoritarianism also became associated with countercultural and bohemian movements such as the Beat Generation in the 1950s 138 the hippies in the 1960s 139 and punks in the 1970s 140 In South America Argentina Bolivia Brazil Paraguay Chile and Uruguay moved away from dictatorships to democracy between 1982 and 1990 141 With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Soviet Union in 1991 the other authoritarian totalitarian half of the Allied Powers of World War II collapsed This led not so much to revolt against authority in general but to the belief that authoritarian states and state control of economies were outdated 142 The idea that liberal democracy was the final form toward which all political striving was directed 143 became very popular in Western countries and was celebrated in Francis Fukuyama s book The End of History and the Last Man 143 According to Charles H Fairbanks Jr all the new states that stumbled out of the ruins of the Soviet bloc except Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan seemed indeed to be moving towards democracy in the early 1990s as were the countries of East Central Europe and the Balkans 144 In December 2010 the Arab Spring arose in response to unrest over economic stagnation but also in opposition to oppressive authoritarian regimes first in Tunisia and spreading to Libya Egypt Yemen Syria Bahrain and elsewhere Regimes were toppled in Tunisia Libya Egypt and partially in Yemen while other countries saw riots civil wars or insurgencies Most Arab Spring revolutions failed to lead to enduring democratization In the decade following the Arab Spring of the countries in which an autocracy was toppled in the Arab spring only Tunisia had become a genuine democracy Egypt backslid to return to a military run authoritarian state while Libya Syria and Yemen experienced devastating civil wars 145 146 2000s authoritarian revival Main article Democratic backsliding Since 2005 observers noted what some have called a democratic recession 143 147 although some such as Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way have disputed that there was a significant democratic decline before 2013 147 In 2018 the Freedom House declared that from 2006 to 2018 113 countries around the world showed a net decline in political rights and civil liberties while only 62 experienced a net improvement 148 Its 2020 report marked the fourteenth consecutive year of declining scores 149 By 2020 all countries marked as not free by Freedom House had also developed practices of transnational authoritarianism aiming to police and control dissent beyond state borders 150 International trends in democracy authoritarianism countries becoming more democratic countries becoming more authoritarianlate 1990s 72 32021 15 33source V Dem 151 152 Writing in 2018 American political journalist David Frum stated The hopeful world of the very late 20th century the world of NAFTA and an expanding NATO of the World Wide Web 1 0 and liberal interventionism of the global spread of democracy under leaders such as Vaclav Havel and Nelson Mandela now looks battered and delusive 153 Michael Ignatieff wrote that Fukuyama s idea of liberalism vanquishing authoritarianism now looks like a quaint artifact of a vanished unipolar moment 143 and Fukuyama himself expressed concern 142 By 2018 only one Arab Spring uprising that in Tunisia resulted in a transition to constitutional democratic governance 154 and a resurgence of authoritarianism and Islamic extremism in the region 155 was dubbed the Arab Winter 156 157 158 159 160 Various explanations have been offered for the new spread of authoritarianism They include the downside of globalization and the subsequent rise of populist neo nationalism 161 and the success of the Beijing Consensus i e the authoritarian model of the People s Republic of China 162 In countries such as the United States factors blamed for the growth of authoritarianism include the financial crisis of 2007 2008 and slower real wage growth 163 as well as social media s elimination of so called gatekeepers of knowledge the equivalent of disintermediation in economics so that a large fraction of the population considers to be opinion what were once viewed as verifiable facts including everything from the danger of global warming to the preventing the spread of disease through vaccination and considers to be fact what are actually only unproven fringe opinions 164 In United States politics the terms extreme right far right and ultra right are labels used to describe militant forms of insurgent revolutionary right ideology and separatist ethnocentric nationalism 165 such as Christian Identity 165 the Creativity Movement 165 the Ku Klux Klan 165 the National Socialist Movement 165 166 167 the National Alliance 165 the Joy of Satan Ministries 166 167 and the Order of Nine Angles 168 These far right groups share conspiracist views of power which are overwhelmingly anti Semitic and reject pluralist democracy in favor of an organic oligarchy that would unite the perceived homogeneously racial Volkish nation 165 168 The far right in the United States is composed of various Neo fascist Neo Nazi White nationalist and White supremacist organizations and networks who have been known to refer to an acceleration of racial conflict through violent means such as assassinations murders terrorist attacks and societal collapse in order to achieve the building of a White ethnostate 168 ExamplesThere is no one consensus definition of authoritarianism but several annual measurements are attempted including Freedom House s annual Freedom in the World report Some countries such as Venezuela among others that are currently or historically recognized as authoritarian did not become authoritarian upon taking power or fluctuated between an authoritarian flawed and Hybrid regime due to periods of democratic backsliding and or democratization The time period reflects their time in power rather than the years they were authoritarian regimes Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia are often regarded as the most infamous examples of totalitarian systems Some countries such as China and various fascist regimes have also been characterized as totalitarian with some periods being depicted as more authoritarian or totalitarian than others Contemporary examples of totalitarian states include the Syrian Arab Republic and the Democratic People s Republic of Korea 169 Current The following is a non exhaustive list of examples of states currently characterized as authoritarian according to whom Some countries listed may also be currently listed as a Hybrid regime by The Economist Democracy Index or partly free by Freedom House s Freedom in the World index or reach an intermediate score at V Dem Democracy Indices State Time period Ruling group or person Notes and references nbsp Afghanistan 1996 2001 2021 Taliban Totalitarian theocratic state 170 nbsp Angola 1975 MPLA 171 nbsp Azerbaijan 1993 Aliyev family 172 173 174 175 176 nbsp Bahrain 1783 House of Khalifa 177 nbsp Bangladesh 2009 Awami League under Sheikh Hasina 178 nbsp Belarus 1994 Alexander Lukashenko 179 180 181 182 183 nbsp Burundi 2005 CNDD FDD 184 nbsp Cambodia 1979 Cambodian People s Party 185 186 nbsp Cameroon 1982 Paul Biya 187 188 nbsp People s Republic of China 1949 Chinese Communist Party Some scholars have deemed the Chinese system a fragmented authoritarianism Lieberthal a negotiated state or a consultative authoritarian regime 189 According to research by John Kennedy et al 2018 Chinese citizens with higher education tend to participate less in local elections and have lower levels of democratic values when compared to those with only compulsory education 190 nbsp Republic of the Congo 1969 1992 1997 Congolese Party of Labour 191 nbsp Cuba 1959 Communist Party of Cuba 192 nbsp Djibouti 1977 People s Rally for Progress 193 194 nbsp Egypt 2014 Abdel Fattah el Sisi 195 nbsp El Salvador 2019 Nayib Bukele 196 197 nbsp Equatorial Guinea 1979 Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo 198 nbsp Eritrea 1993 a Isaias Afwerki Eritrea is considered a totalitarian dictatorship 199 nbsp Eswatini 1968 House of Dlamini 200 nbsp Ethiopia 2018 Abiy Ahmed Abiy Ahmed and his party considered authoritarian by some activists and dissents 201 He is considered by some a charming dictator 202 203 nbsp Hungary 2010 Fidesz 204 205 nbsp Iran 1979 Assembly of Experts After the Iranian Revolution Iran became an authoritarian clerical state nominally an Islamic republic based on the absolute authority of the unelected Supreme Leader of Iran based on the Shia concept of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist 206 207 In 2000 Juan Jose Linz wrote that it is difficult to fit the Iranian regime into the existing typology as it combines the ideological bent of totalitarianism with the limited pluralism of authoritarianism and holds regular elections in which candidates advocating differing policies and incumbents are often defeated 208 nbsp Israel 1996 1999 2009 2021 2022 Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud 209 210 211 212 213 nbsp Jordan 1946 Hashemites 214 nbsp Laos 1975 Lao People s Revolutionary Party 215 nbsp Morocco 1957 Alaouite dynasty 214 216 217 nbsp Mozambique 1975 FRELIMO 218 nbsp Myanmar 1962 Tatmadaw The Tatmadaw allowed a democratically elected administration to exercise some power from 2016 to 2021 without allowing civilian control of the military 219 nbsp Nicaragua 1979 1990 2007 Daniel Ortega 220 221 nbsp North Korea 1949 Workers Party of Korea under Kim Dynasty Some scholars consider North Korea to be the most totalitarian country 222 223 nbsp Oman 1970 House of Al Said 224 nbsp Palestine 1964 Palestine Liberation Organization 225 nbsp Qatar 1971 House of Thani 226 nbsp Russia 1991 Boris Yeltsin United Russia under Vladimir Putin 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 nbsp Rwanda 2000 Paul Kagame 234 nbsp Saudi Arabia 1934 House of Saud 235 nbsp Singapore 1965 People s Action Party Dominant party system 236 237 nbsp South Sudan 2011 Sudan People s Liberation Movement under Salva Kiir Mayardit 238 nbsp Republika Srpska part of nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina 2006 Milorad Dodik 239 240 241 nbsp Syria 1963 Arab Socialist Ba ath Party Syria Region under al Assad family Totalitarian police state 242 243 244 under a hereditary dictatorship nbsp Sudan 2021 Abdel Fattah al Burhan Failed state in a power vacuum 245 nbsp Tajikistan 1994 Emomali Rahmon 246 nbsp Togo 1967 Eyadema Family 247 nbsp Turkey 2003 Justice and Development Party under Recep Tayyip Erdogan It has been described by observers as a competitive authoritarian regime 248 nbsp Turkmenistan 2006 Berdimuhamedow Family Effectively a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship 249 250 nbsp United Arab Emirates 1971 Royal families of the United Arab Emirates 251 252 nbsp Uganda 1986 Yoweri Museveni 253 nbsp Uzbekistan 1989 Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party 254 255 256 nbsp Venezuela 1999 United Socialist Party of Venezuela 257 nbsp Vietnam 1976 Vietnamese Communist Party 258 nbsp Zimbabwe 1980 ZANU PF 259 260 Historical The following is a non exhaustive list of examples of states which were historically authoritarian State Time period Ruling group or person Notes and references nbsp Algeria 1999 2019 Abdelaziz Bouteflika 261 nbsp Argentina 1946 1955 Justicialist Party under Juan Peron See also Peronism 262 263 1966 1973 Military government See also the Argentine Revolution 262 263 1973 1976 Justicialist Party under Juan and Isabel Peron 262 263 1976 1983 Jorge Rafael Videla See also the National Reorganization Process 262 263 nbsp Austria 1933 1938 Christian Social Party under Engelbert Dollfuss and Fatherland Front under Kurt Schuschnigg See also the Federal State of Austria and Standestaat nbsp Brazil 1937 1945 Getulio Vargas See also the Vargas Era 264 1964 1985 Military dictatorship in Brazil Started with the 1964 Brazilian coup d etat 264 nbsp Burma 1962 2011 Military government and the Burma Socialist Programme Party Started with the 1962 Burmese coup d etat and ended with the 2011 2012 Burmese political reforms 265 nbsp Burundi 1961 1993 UPRONA nbsp Confederate States of America 1861 1865 Jefferson Davis Herrenvolk republic with a democracy of the white race 266 267 nbsp Chad 1982 1990 Hissene Habre Habre was deposed by Idriss Deby he was tried in Senegal for crimes against his country and died in prison months after the man who removed him from power died in combat nbsp Chile 1973 1990 Government Junta under Augusto Pinochet Started with the 1973 Chilean coup d etat 268 nbsp Republic of China 1927 1949 Kuomintang and Nationalist government under Chiang Kai shek The Republic of China on Taiwan is listed further below nbsp Democratic Republic of the Congo 1997 2019 Laurent Desire Kabila and Joseph Kabila Zaire is listed further below 269 nbsp nbsp Croatia 1941 1945 Ustase under Ante Pavelic See also Independent State of Croatia1990 1999 Croatian Democratic Union under Franjo Tuđman 270 271 nbsp Czechoslovakia 1938 1939 Party of National Unity nbsp Egypt 1952 2011 Gamal Abdel Nasser Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak 272 nbsp Equatorial Guinea 1968 1979 Francisco Macias Nguema nbsp Ethiopia 1974 1991 Mengistu Haile Mariam and the Workers Party of Ethiopia 273 nbsp Ethiopia 1991 2019 Ethiopian People s Revolutionary Democratic Front 274 nbsp Fiji 2006 2022 FijiFirst b 275 276 277 278 nbsp France 1793 1794 Committee of Public Safety a provisional government during the Reign of Terror under Maximilien Robespierre See also the French Revolution nbsp Gabon 1961 2023 Gabonese Democratic Party Ali Bongo is overthrown in a military coup nbsp Gambia 1994 2017 Yahya Jammeh Jammeh is overthrown by democratic elections and is forced to resign nbsp Nazi Germany 1933 1945 National Socialist German Workers Party See also Nazism nbsp Guinea 1958 2021 Ahmed Sekou Toure Lansana Conte Moussa Dadis Camara and Alpha Conde Guinea was marked by a series of authoritarian generations nbsp Guinea Bissau 1980 1999 Joao Bernardo Vieira Nino Vieira would govern in an authoritarian manner in the 80s and 90s until his overthrow in 2005 he returned to the presidency until his assassination nbsp Hungary 1920 1944 Miklos Horthy and the Unity Party 279 nbsp Indonesia 1959 1998 Sukarno and Suharto See also the Guided Democracy era and the New Order nbsp Iran 1925 1979 Pahlavi dynasty 280 nbsp Iraq 1968 2003 Arab Socialist Ba ath Party Iraq Region under Ahmed Hassan al Bakr and Saddam Hussein nbsp Empire of Japan 1931 1945 Hirohito and the Imperial Rule Assistance Association nbsp Liberia 1886 1980 True Whig Party Party that ruled Liberia for more than 100 years and the monopoly was overthrown by the 1980 Liberian coup 1980 1990 Samuel Doe The Liberian president ends up captured and executed for a long time in the middle of a Civil war nbsp Fascist Italy 1922 1943 National Fascist Party 281 nbsp Kazakhstan 1990 2022 Amanat Formelly named Nur Otan The incumbent president Kassym Jomart Tokayev renounced his party membership establishing in the amendments of the second republic that no president should have affiliation with any party 187 nbsp Libya 1969 2011 Muammar Gaddafi Started with the 1969 Libyan coup d etat and ended with the 2011 Libyan Civil War 282 nbsp Lithuania 1926 1940 Antanas Smetona Ended in the Soviet occupation 283 nbsp Macedonia 2006 2016 Nikola Gruevski 284 285 nbsp Mali 1968 1991 Moussa Traore Moussa is deposed in the 1991 Malian coup d etat and sentenced to death twice exonerated in May 2002 nbsp Massachusetts Bay Colony 1630 1691 John Winthrop 286 287 nbsp Mexico 17 May 4 June 1833 Santa Anna18 June 5 July 183327 October December 18331834 183520 March 10 July 18391841 184214 May 6 September 18434 June 12 September 184421 March 2 April 184720 May 15 September 18471853 18551876 1911 Porfirio Diaz Juan Mendez and Manuel Flores See also Porfiriato 1929 2000 PRI Mexico was very authoritarian when PRI was the ruling party in Mexico but in 2000 after about 70 years of ruling they lost the 2000 Mexican presidential election They eventually came back to power in 2012 by winning the Mexican presidential election but eventually lost power in the 2018 Mexican presidential election as their candidate finished 3rd See also Tlatelolco massacre and the rigged 1988 Mexican presidential election nbsp Ottoman Empire 1878 1908 Abdul Hamid II1913 1918 The Three Pashas nbsp Montenegro 1990 2023 Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro under Milo Đukanovic 288 289 290 291 292 nbsp Nicaragua 1936 1979 Somoza Family The Somoza clan loses power in the Sandinista revolution nbsp Philippines 1965 1986 Ferdinand Marcos Ended with the People Power Revolution 2016 2022 Rodrigo Duterte 293 294 nbsp Poland 1926 1939 Sanation See also the May Coup nbsp Portugal 1926 1933 Military government See also the National Dictatorship 1933 1974 Estado Novo regime under Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and Marcelo Caetano Ended with the Carnation Revolution 295 nbsp Russian State 1918 1920 White movement under Alexander Kolchak nbsp Rwanda 1961 1994 Gregoire Kayibanda and Juvenal Habyarimana nbsp Somalia 1969 1991 Siad Barre nbsp South Africa 1948 1994 National Party Ended with the end of apartheid 296 297 nbsp South Korea 1948 1960 Syngman Rhee 298 299 1961 1987 Park Chung hee and Chun Doo hwan nbsp Francoist Spain 1936 1978 Francisco Franco and Juan Carlos I of Spain Until the Spanish transition to democracy 300 nbsp Sudan 1969 2019 Jaafar Nimeiry and Omar al Bashir Ousted in 2019 Sudanese coup d etat 187 nbsp Taiwan 1945 1987 Kuomintang under Chiang Kai shek and Chiang Ching kuo The Republic of China 1927 1949 is listed further above 301 nbsp Thailand 1932 1933 People s Party under Phraya Phahon and Plaek Phibunsongkhram On 1 April 1933 Prime Minister Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada staged a coup by decree closing parliament abstaining from using certain sections of the Constitution and exiling Pridi Banomyong temporarily left the country which left the People s Party powerless for a period Until 20 June 1933 there was a coup d etat by the People s Party Thus causing the People s Party to return to power once again 1933 19441948 1957 Plaek Phibunsongkhram Ended with the 1957 Thai coup d etat 1958 1973 Sarit Thanarat and Thanom Kittikachorn Ended with the 1973 Thai popular uprising 2014 2023 Prayut Chan o cha 302 nbsp Tunisia 1987 2011 Zine El Abidine Ben Ali See also Tunisian Revolution nbsp Turkey 1923 1950 Republican People s Party 303 304 nbsp Turkmenistan 1991 2006 Democratic Party of Turkmenistan under Saparmurat Niyazov Effectively a totalitarian dictatorship 249 250 nbsp Soviet Union 1922 1991 Communist Party of the Soviet Union See also authoritarian socialism nbsp Ukraine 1992 2005 Leonid Kuchma Ended in the Orange Revolution according to whom 2010 2014 Party of Regions under Viktor Yanukovych Ended in the Revolution of Dignity according to whom nbsp Ukrainian State 1918 Pavlo Skoropadskyi Started with the 1918 Ukrainian coup d etat and ended with the Anti Hetman Uprising nbsp nbsp Yugoslavia 1929 1934 Alexander I and the JRSD See also the 6 January Dictatorship 1934 1941 Milan Stojadinovic and the JRZ1944 1990 League of Communists of Yugoslavia under Josip Broz Tito 1980 See also the death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito 305 306 nbsp Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1992 2000 Socialist Party of Serbia under Slobodan Milosevic See also the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic 307 308 nbsp Zaire 1965 1997 Mobutu Sese Seko The Democratic Republic of the Congo after 1997 is listed above 269 See alsoAuthoritarian capitalism Authoritarian socialism Criticism of democracy Left wing dictatorship Right wing dictatorship Absolute monarchy One party state Autocracy Criticism of liberal democracy Managed democracyNotes Eritrea gained de facto independence in 1991 de jure independence was achieved in 1993 While FijiFirst s leader Frank Bainimarama still forms government in Fiji democratic elections were 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