Dictatorship
A dictatorship is a form of government characterized by a single leader or group of leaders and little or no toleration for political pluralism or independent media. According to other definitions, democracies are a form of government in which "those who govern are selected through contested elections"; therefore, dictatorships are "not democracies".With the advent of the 19th and 20th centuries, dictatorships and constitutional democracies emerged as the world's two major forms of government, gradually eliminating monarchies, one of the traditional widespread forms of government of the time. Typically, in a dictatorial regime, the leader of the country is identified with …
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CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 8 March 2024 English
The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …
permitted the rise of a Hamas military and Islamist dictatorship. As for the West Bank, even the Israeli Supreme …
CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 7 March 2024 English
The Second World War gave birth to the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Paris Peace Treaties, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the Genocide …
permitted the rise of a Hamas military and Islamist dictatorship. As for the West Bank, even the Israeli Supreme …
Wilson Center Canada · 15 February 2024 English
the other. [...] The RSF claims it is continuing the revolution against the Islamist/ military dictatorship that stifled the aspirations of the Sudanese people for peace, freedom, justice, and equality …
the revolution against the Islamist/ military dictatorship that stifled the aspirations of the Sudanese …
CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 15 February 2024 English
Headquartered understanding of the socio-economic and technological in Waterloo, Canada, CIGI has received support impacts of digitalization and improve the quality and from the Government of Canada, the Government relevance …
corporate entities, leading to a form of corporate dictatorship (Zuboff 2019). On the other hand, non-democratic …
CCA: Council of Canadian Academies · 12 February 2024 English
The role of the peer review monitor is to ensure that the panel gives full and fair consideration to the submissions of the peer reviewers. [...] Recognizing the opportunities and …
Included in Budget 2023 are steps to “securing our economy” while acknowledging that “depending on dictatorships for key …
Wilson Center Canada · 17 January 2024 English
‘On the Decision to Introduce Martial Law in Poland in 1981’ Two Historians Report to the Commission on Constitutional Oversight of the SEJM of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Paczkowski …
decades of increasingly brutal and repressive dictatorship. Part of the mystery probed in this paper regards … two decades of repressive, sometimes brutal dictatorship. McClintock had repeated US support for civilian …
Research Group on Human Capital - Université du Québec à Montréal · 12 January 2024 English
The controls are i) how much farther the top-scoring high school is to student i’s middle school compared to the closest high school (DistanceTop−Closest), ii) how much higher the top-scoring …
preferences over high schools. A centralized serial dictatorship rule, prioritizing students with high scores … allocates students to high school seats via a serial dictatorship rule that gives high-scoring students absolute … high-admission score schools, coupled with the serial dictatorship assignment mechanism, lead to pronounced sorting … results from the universal and centralized serial dictatorship rule that favors high-scoring students. While …
MiningWatch Canada · 10 January 2024 English
Arrest of the Five Santa Marta Water Defenders On January 11, 2023, on the orders of the Attorney General of the government of Nayib Bukele, police arrested six men, five …
armed revolutionary group that opposed a brutal dictatorship that had ruled the country for over 50 years … to the depth of the dangers of the Bukele’s dictatorship, especially to those in prison or otherwise …
CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 20 December 2023 English
Similarly, the and Regulations “Facebook Files,” a collection of stories and internal documents leaked in 2021 to The Wall Street Journal, revealed that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg The twenty-first century …
“‘interception, blocking, and restriction’ of dictatorship to quash democratic transitions. mobile and … country’s four mobile experts calls a “digital dictatorship” (UN Office of service providers, including … The Crisis of Social Media. Freedom ‘digital dictatorship.’” High Commissioner for Human House. https://freedomhouse … load.pdf. experts-condemn-militarys-digital-dictatorship. ———. 2021. Freedom on the Net 2021: The Global …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 5 December 2023 English
After rigorous evaluation and review of their accomplishments, leading individuals may be elected to one of the Society’s three Academies—the Academy of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences, …
recognized historian of political violence and dictatorship in 20th-century Europe, especially of the Spanish …
