It has become common today to dismiss autocracy on the basis on the basis of it having a single minded perspective. A single charismatic leader‚ making decisions for an entire nation or community might seem lucrative‚ but todays post modernist society‚ questions its viability. Today’s rational minded individuals look upto political structures for answers beyond poverty‚ inflation and basic public goods. They want answers to issues like climate change‚ sustainability and globalization. In such opinionative
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The Tsarist autocracy has succeeded for more than three hundred years‚ but the Russian Revolution that occurred on November 1917 ended the long term autocracy. During this time period‚ Tsar Nicholas II was the leader of Russia and indeed the last one. He caused Russia’s downfall and made many Russians frustrated about the government. The Tsar did not acknowledge the nation’s problems and failed to improve the lives of the citizens. As the Russians struggled with limited rights and lack of help from
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Cha & Dana Cha‚ 2011) The biggest virtue of a democratic government is that it represents the views of the majority. Autocracy is a system of government by a single person with absolute power‚ usually characterised by exerting force to take control of a group of people reluctant to be under his rule. A fundamental problem of politics in the past‚ and even the present‚ is that autocracy and dictatorship should be avoided. Such systems undermine the individual’s liberty‚ as the autocrat is the driving
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is elected by the people where a president and a prime minister has his own powers and is bound to stick to those powers only which are granted to him by his post While in Autocracy the meaning is totally opposite it is a common misconception that autocracy is more like dictatorship while in my view dictatorship and autocracy are quite different things. In Dictatorship there is a leader who is being dictated by other person mainly the overruling personality or the party‚ while an autocrat is a type
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Authoritarian Government and Economic Development Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the correlation between economic development and authoritarian governments. The objectives of this study are to find out whether authoritarian governments an impediment to economic growth and how the authoritarian governments are performing economically compared to the developed democratic nations. The study was conducted using a quantitative approach. In the first part of the study questionnaires
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Sartori ((2002). p122) argues that credibility relates to a state’s perceived honesty and the ability of the actor to bluff successfully. In this case Actor B judges Actor A’s credibility by assessing the previous and perceived future behaviour of Actor A. Actor B is far less likely to escalate a situation when Actor A has a reputation of following through with threats‚ i.e. a reputation for honesty. Jervis argues against this and claims that credibility is not the perceived honesty of an actor
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“Die Welle”‚ directed by Dennis Gansel is about a teacher that is assigned to teach autocracy instead of anarchy. In the German setting‚ where the movie takes place‚ everybody knows that fascism and the Nazis sucked‚ they got that. Getting relegated to teaching autocracy was a real bummer since the students were filled with arrogance and laziness. Rainer Wegner constructs an unorthodox experiment‚ making an autocracy group of their own called “The Wave” or “Die Welle”. The real question is to what
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encompassing interest to provide a peaceful order and other public goods that increase productivity in his territory 2. the tenure of an autocrat matters: c. the brief tenure‚ the inherent uncertainty of succession in dictatorships imply that autocracies will rarely have good economic performance for more than one generation d. the conditions necessary for a lasting democracy are the same necessary for the security of property and contract rights that generates economic growth The first
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Considering the complimentary role played by the selectorate theory when studying the research and evidence surrounding autocracies‚ we find that the selectorate theory provides a complete and overarching explanation for the longevity of autocratic leaders. Approaching the selectorate theory through both its intrinsic and extrinsic role‚ it demonstrates that durability can be achieved in various ways. Subsequently‚ there is no set criteria that can explain the longevity of autocratic leaders. Rather
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Socially‚ Russia was under the state of hierarchy‚ where it was divided into social classes. At this point in Russia’s history‚ Russia was ruled under the Tsarist Autocracy where the Tsar‚ only governed Russia and made all the decisions. Under him came the “civil servants”. At the top were ministers in charge of the government departments‚ and the bottom was made up of the minor ministers like customs inspectors and office clerks. They were usually underpaid‚ therefore‚ took constant bribes. All
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