Authoritarianism

Authoritarianism is a regime type and, furthermore, a political vision that seeks to create compliance in authority and establish order and peace by striving for absolute legitimacy. In an authoritarian regime, power relations are vertically-organized, where there is little to no accountability for those in power and where civil and political rights of citizens, if established, are restrictive and violated. Two common misconceptions of authoritarianism are that they are durable and they have always

The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism: Main Features and Limits Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way fashionably unveil the major features of this new political regime. As clearly explained by the authors, Competitive Authoritarianism is a hybrid regime combining elements of Liberal Democracy and Authoritarian rule, and, for this reason, many political philosophers like Fukuyama look upon it as a “transitional diminished democracy” (Levitsky). However, political philosophers like Gat and Levitsky, supported

individual’s mind is that Authoritarianism means having no equal rights having 33.3% making it the majority in the respondents’ answers. Having fear and violence and making the decision-making of a government faster and efficient ties at third most perceived idea of Authoritarianism with both having 20% from the respondents’ answers. The majority of the answers by the respondents’ are the bad ideas and traits that are stereotypically embedded in the term Authoritarianism. It can be seen that the

definitively the cause of this research. It is possible to look deeper into this with Authoritarianism with it being described as on the fascist right and the Communist left. The “cold war” was an ideology clash between the western world and the Soviet Union. “More importantly, Rokeach rejected the psychoanalytical explanation, originally proposed by Adorno et al. He argued that the various features of authoritarianism were the product not of unconscious processes but of a distinctive cognitive style

qualities that can be drawn out from it. Being aware of the flourishing state of the Philippines during the Marcos’ regime, Authoritarianism is healthy for the country at present and the things that should be considered are the country’s growth, the risk of giving up freedom, and the Filipinos’ perception on the idea. Results show that Filipinos are accustomed to see Authoritarianism through the stereotypical traits that are embedded with it, thus, making them in complete opposition to the idea of incorporating

in particular, the end of the Cold War ushered in an era of economic growth and a large increase in the number of liberal democracies. Although the world saw a large increase in liberal democracies, a new regime type referred to as competitive authoritarianism began to emerge. According to Levitsky and Way, “In competitive authoritarian regimes, formal

Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior,” Vladimir Putin once said this. With such a view of authoritarianism, there would be assumption that the entire world is on its way to seek such democracy if it is such a clear, correct choice. However, nothing is ever so simple, and this is not the case. In this essay I will take a look at how authoritarianism fails, as well as why it is able to prevail is some areas. Authoritarian forms of government do sometimes fail. The

Authoritarianism is another form of leadership. Authoritarian leaders have qualities which include, good decision making, giving commands; their decision making does not usually involve others and they are motivational. According to Ballou & Landreneau (2010) they found that authoritarianism is influenced by personality through childhood and family characteristics. Those who practice an authoritarian leadership style believe in a hierarchy, where the ‘most powerful sits at the top, and the least

History has known far more authoritarian regimes than any other form of government. Authoritarianism is a form of non-democratic rule defined by state power being centralized in a single person or a small group of people. Unlike democracies, these individuals in power are not dependent on the people for power. Thus, under authoritarianism, state leaders have little accountability to the public and there is little individual freedom. Additionally, authoritarian regimes are not bound by a constitution

Outline the similarities and differences between Adorno et al.’s (1950) and Altemeyer’s (1981) approach to authoritarianism The rise of fascism in Germany in the 1930’s and the acts of aggression and atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Second World War led to questions being asked as to why some people where prone to such levels of violence and hate in the name of political ideology. The ‘Authoritarian Personality’ was a concept suggested in 1950 by German sociologist Theodor Adorno and