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Authoritarian
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Collective abdication—the transfer of authority to a leader who threatens democracy—usually flows from one of two sources. The first is the misguided belief that an authoritarian can be controlled or tamed. The second is what sociologist Ivan Ermakoff calls “ideological collusion,” in which the authoritarian’s agenda overlaps sufficiently with that of mainstream politicians that abdication is desirable, or at least preferable to the alternatives.
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― How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
― How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
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Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!
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