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One runs a totalitarian regime where dissent of any kind can lead to death, whereas the other runs a highly illiberal democracy.
But it is much, much easier to find counterexamples, in which threats have led to stability under highly illiberal regimes or growth-crushing instability.
Because the Junkers staffed the Prussian army, which had brought about Germany's unification, they were accorded great influence, particularly in Prussia, where a highly illiberal constitution remained in force (1850 1918).
Certainly, highly illiberal regimes have used technological devices to suppress individual freedom and to secure obedience to the state: the nightmare vision of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), with its telescreens and sophisticated torture, has provided literary demonstration of this reality, should one be needed.
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Even though there was talk of the mid-ranks of the military being unhappy with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's illiberal policies, a coup was highly unlikely, many reckoned.
An illiberal democracy?
The ban is illiberal.
Its basic instincts are illiberal.
Next, spying was fundamentally illiberal.
This week it rediscovered its illiberal streak.
Illiberal Stagnation, Project Syndicate, April 2, 2017.
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