Tens of thousands of protesters denounced his tactic as authoritarian, setting off the first major street fighting between his supporters and opponents.
Although inmates are able to participate in group activities, such as bible study (or other religious group activity), training and exercise, or informal activities in their wing, prison is itself an authoritarian setting with limited opportunity for self-initiation or action (when compared with the general community).
America is an authoritative type, encouraging its children to exercise their free will responsibly; Russia is, it goes without saying, an authoritarian parent, setting strict rules and punitive measures.
Or what are the reverberations of public education systems that don't teach critical thinking skills or the consequences of authoritarian leaders setting up patronage systems that rob their citizens of opportunities and their ambition?
In Sorokin's depiction of an authoritarian Russia set in the year 2028, the ruler controls all destinies and information.
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.
They did not appoint a single authoritarian preacher, "set up to teach them, it may be thirty or forty years together" (Fell 1667b, 86), but rather members would wait in silence till someone felt the light stir within.
Like authoritative parents, authoritarian parents set high expectations and create many rules.
Some of the new generation of leaders seemed well-intentioned at first, but then strayed down the authoritarian path, set on becoming leaders for life.
In far too many countries over the last century – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Germany and the Soviet Union come to mind – authoritarian leaders set out to hobble and suppress outspoken labor leaders and independent trade unions.
Despite modes of governance having been recently identified, little research has explained the impetus for the formation and transformation of these modes of governance in an authoritarian political setting.
