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What is authoritarianism?
Principle of blind submission to authority, as opposed to individual freedom of thought and action.
It's a way of management in which orders are issued with threats of punishment for disobedience, and is based on the belief that status and power differences in an organization are appropriate and must be maintained.
• Authoritarian regimes still allow some freedom (mostly economic).
• Authoritarian leaders prefer a population that is apathetic about politics.
• They use the fear of disorder to justify their rules.
• Full State control of the media.
• Religious groups are often suppressed.
The government imposes its authority in violation of applicable law to impose authority in a country.
• Existance of a single leader or small group of leaders with ultimate political authority.
• Supremacy of the authority of the State over all organizations in society.
• Authoritarian leaders make all important government decisions.
• Authoritarian systems commonly emerge in times of political, economic and social instability.
• During the initial period, authoritarian systems may have public support.
The government breaks the existing legal regime replacing it with rules that only have a benefit for them, disguised as constitutional reform, resulting in the violation of the democracy and the implementation of a system that allows them to be reelected.
• Military authoritarian system.
• Party authoritarian system.
• Bureaucratic authoritarian system.
To stay in the power indefinitely, authoritarian leaders become dictators.