Turks view the disinflation programme as part and parcel of a hoped-for transition from an introverted, statist and authoritarian past to a liberal, democratic and cosmopolitan future.
Now, again, with the deteriorating regime, this situation threatens that Egypt will move from an authoritarian regime into a theocracy.
Surrounded by an aura of stability and legitimacy, Juan Carlos provided the deft guidance that enabled Spain to make the treacherous transition from an authoritarian state to a vibrant, deep-rooted democracy.
Meanwhile, Mr Thackeray, who had now become a kind of authoritarian leader who could get things done with a mere phone call, shifted to a different stance.
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South Africa, the Phillipines and a few others made the transition from authoritarian to free country without a long layover in totalitarianism.
The existence of a general Arab appetite for democracy does not mean that the alternative to a repressive, authoritarian regime is bound in every case to be a liberal democracy.
Order has collapsed in Haiti, Venezuela is governed by a populist with authoritarian tendencies, Bolivia's next president may be a similar character and the governments of Ecuador and Peru are shaky.
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Was Hirohito a mere figurehead atop a powerful system of authoritarian rule, an imperial puppet manipulated by a military elite?
The run-off pitted Vladimir Meciar, a ham-fisted ex-prime minister whose authoritarian style set Slovakia back half a decade in the 1990s, against Ivan Gasparovic, who was then Mr Meciar's right-hand man but later fell out with him.
Hosni Mubarak's resignation as president of Egypt, after thirty years of authoritarian rule, is a major seismic event in the unstable Middle East.
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Marzouki was a longtime human rights activist whose ascension to the presidency was seen as a sign of Tunisia's democratic progress after it overthrew a longtime authoritarian president in 2011.
The students receive a more personalised, rather than authoritarian, style of education and the teachers are encouraged to foster a learning environment which accommodates such an approach.
Correa began to back off from his authoritarian policies, not like a hero but very much like a coward.
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However glad some Thais may be to see the back of a prime minister who had some authoritarian ways and eye-popping conflicts of interest, their country has taken a big step backwards.
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Tunisia, for example, now seems the most likely candidate to make a successful transition from authoritarian rule to truly representative government.
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But to the French, who fought hard-won battles against authoritarian clericalism, it stems from a secular wish to keep religion in the private sphere.
"There is an appeal because I'm not some nanny figure or authoritarian, if there's a party going on I'm normally the centre of it but I don't mix the two - alcohol and driving, " he said.
The persistent economic problems that led to the 1998 rubel crisis, its strong authoritarian tradition and the lack of a new generation of democratic leaders led to the election of a former KGB officer, Vladimir Putin, as president of Russia in 1999.
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In 1974, Portugal's authoritarian ruler Marcelo Caetano was overthrown in a military coup, surrendering to Gen.
Throwing out the corrupt, authoritarian PRI, in 2000, was a great moment for democracy in Latin America.
Edgar Hoover as a bullying, righteous, and wary man, a natural-born populist authoritarian.
Whatever emerges will probably not be called a prime minister's department, a term which sounds too authoritarian for British tastes.
Egypt has faced near-constant turmoil in the more than two years since longtime, authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in a revolt.
Many Arabs with liberal leanings, for instance, quietly prefer authoritarian rule to the unknown quality of a supposedly democratic Islamic state, something which Mr Diamond, in a recent essay, reckons that some 40-45% of the people in four Arab countries seem to wish for.
Two weeks ago she went on a well-publicized visit to authoritarian Singapore to learn the secret of its school system's success.
The middle manager's authoritarian style "was seriously at odds with a company that was striving to empower people, " and made her employees feel she only cared about herself, Ms. Heathfield adds.
Such solicitousness would have been widely welcomed a decade ago in then-authoritarian Indonesia, but today some admirers of the former general, both at home and in the region, wish he'd be more decisive.
Under the rule of the authoritarian populist, Vladimir Meciar, Slovakia had become a playground for crooks and spooks.
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