neo-authoritarianism
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From neo- + authoritarianism.
Noun
[edit]neo-authoritarianism (uncountable)
- A post-Maoist current in Chinese political thought favoring enlightened autocracy.
- 2019 March 20, Hualing Fu, “Touching the Proverbial Elephant: The Multiple Shades of Chinese Law”, in China Perspectives[1], volume 2019, number 1, →ISSN, pages 3–9:
- As neo-authoritarianism advances, the [Chinese Communist] Party moves to the front stage and becomes hands-on in managing important affairs, crowding out legal rules and institutions. It has expanded and solidified a prerogative state to solve politically sensitive matters through substantively extra-legal methods.
- Any present-day phenomenon of authoritarianism.
- 2021 May 10, Massimiliano Tomba, “Neo-Authoritarianism without Authority”, in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture[2], volume 23, number 1, , →ISSN:
- Neo-authoritarianism has neither fascist black shirts nor the Nazi’s brown-shirts. It would be misleading to try to understand the neo-authoritarian phenomenon by focusing on some groups that exhibit the swastika.
References
[edit]- Li, He (2015) “Neo-authoritarianism”, in Political Thought and China’s Transformation: Ideas Shaping Reform in Post-Mao China, Palgrave Macmillan UK, →ISBN, pages 31–45