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In 1950, Turkey had the first free and fair elections, which ended the more autocratic secular regime, which was in the beginning of Turkey.
Is it autocratic, controlling, restrictive and untrusting and unfulfilling?
Autocratic governments and criminal organizations undoubtedly will, but let's not join them.
Our project was a shock for many Russians, who used to think that our country has always been an autocratic empire and the ideas of freedom and democracy could never have prevailed, just because democracy was not our destiny.
He also lived in an autocratic Mexico and covered the 1958 Venezuelan coup d’état as a journalist.
And many of these Muslims further say that their disagreement with the United States is that it, in the past and still in the present, has sided with autocratic rulers in the Muslim world in order to promote America's short-term interests.
We were piloted, I could say, by a highly autocratic stateswoman, but who also had an incredible passion for environment.
These protests led to the overthrow of autocratic regimes and led to the introduction of multiparty elections across the continent.
His best total film appearance in a comedy was probably that of magazine publisher Alexander Yardley in "Christmas In Connecticut" (although his autocratic, half-mad soap tycoon in "The Hucksters" is a close second).
Clearly, an autocratic regime is more favorable to the rapid accumulation of capital than a democratic one, and a prosperous country is more favorable to the development of democratic institutions than a destitute one.
The last thing impoverished Moldovans need is an autocratic, unaccountable government that lacks sufficient imagination to find a way to revive the country.
The top-down hierarchy is autocratic and arbitrary; lower levels have little collaborative input and no right of appeal.
This will lead the regime down an increasingly autocratic path, applying more aggression at home and defying the West with greater self-confidence.
Russia’s stance changed gradually during the early 2000s, as world oil prices – and Russian output – recovered, reinvigorating the country’s economic base at a time when its leadership was becoming increasingly autocratic.
At other times Yeltsin acts as impetuously as any ordained Tsar: he passionately ordered his tanks to fire at his own Duma in1993, the clearest signal of all that he never intended to really share his unlimited autocratic power.
Oil exporters, with the exception of Libya and Yemen, may have avoided major political changes, but the autocratic bargain – and any attempt to unravel it – has become more expensive.
Except for a few tweaks that generally resonate more at home than with Germany’s European and international partners (such as requiring the government to be more transparent concerning arms exports to autocratic regimes), continuity and caution will remain the watchwords of German foreign and security policy.
CAMBRIDGE – Why were democratic political systems not responsive early enough to the grievances that autocratic populists have successfully exploited – inequality and economic anxiety, decline of perceived social status, the chasm between elites and ordinary citizens?
And it is still common to hear autocratic leaders who inherited parts of the Western empires claim that democracy is all well and good, but the people are not yet ready for it.
The demonstrations thus served as both an acknowledgement of and a challenge to Putin’s autocratic ambitions.
Indeed, its political order suffers from the same self-destructive dynamics that have sent countless autocratic regimes to their graves.
In fact, savvy autocratic rulers favor less talented successors, because they are easier to groom and control on their way to power.
Leadership degeneration accelerates as the autocratic regime ages and grows more bureaucratic.
The most visible symptom is corruption, but the cause is intrinsic to autocratic rule.
The puzzle is why neither the compelling self-destructive logic of autocratic rule nor the mounting evidence of deteriorating regime performance in China has persuaded even some of the most knowledgeable observers that the end of CCP rule is now a distinct possibility.
Should such a process occur in China, the CCP could transform itself into a major political party competing with others for power, as formerly autocratic parties have done in Mexico and Taiwan.
By contrast, the rest of the region’s experiences – which involve a long history of autocratic governance and neglect of long-simmering grievances – have fanned the flames of conflict.
These problems were simmering beneath the surface of autocratic repression for decades.
President Donald Trump’s Twitter tirades about “fake news” have given autocratic regimes an example by which to justify their own media crackdowns.
Countries that have fallen into the grip of autocratic leaders – for example, Argentina and Turkey – are also increasingly at a disadvantage.
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