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authoritarianismRule of a country by a dominant elite who repress opponents and the press to maintain their own wealth and power. They are frequently indifferent to activities not affecting their security, and rival power centres, such as trade unions and political parties, are often allowed to exist, although under tight control. An extreme form is totalitarianism. |
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| Singapore's soft authoritarianism shields it from the kind of attention that Burma and other such regimes attract. Governments, already unpopular on account of their authoritarianism and corruption, were even more resented by cooperating with the American-led war in Iraq against the will of the vast majority of their populations. Daniel Lynch explains Taiwan's adaptation to the "network society," leaving readers an impression that in an era of lowered or absent thresholds to social interconnectivity, the hegemonic nature of Beijing's relationship with Taipei, to say nothing of the PRC's reflexive authoritarianism at home, puts both sides of the Taiwan Strait at a severe disadvantage. |
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