What are its tendencies over time?

Prone to selfdestructive tendencies. I was dying.

We aren't a simple authoritarian regime anymore.

Human rights groups are putting pressure on authoritarian governments.

So why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?

At which point he is the authoritarian ruler of France.

But you say, 'Gradually, as time passes, the old tendencies are creeping back in again,'

Statically, China is a one party system, authoritarian there's no question about it.

Dynamically, it has changed over time to become less authoritarian and more democratic.

Now that is pretty authoritarian, and that's something I'm very much critical of.

For each of these successful authoritarian governments in East Asia, there's a matched failure.

We unknowingly filter based on our preferences, tendencies, and many other aspects that we believe are important.

The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction.

In my analysis I rely considerably on the types of authoritarian behaviour first analyzed by Kurz.

Some of these economies were ruled by authoritarian governments in the 60s and 70s and 1980s.

For decades, we have lived under authoritarian regimes in the Arab world, in the Middle East.

But where those good old West Virginia boys could only see an emotional disconnect with traces of sociopathic tendencies,

Or they're responding to censorship requests by authoritarian regimes that do not reflect consent of the governed.

The terrible danger of the authoritarian system only became clear as we got closer to the end.

If these tendencies continue, those aged 65 or more will account for a quarter of the population within 30 years.

You deprive man of his dreams and you deprive him of the release from whatever psychotic tendencies he may have.

And this actually fits with another interesting theory about what's happening in authoritarian states and in their cyberspace.

I'll just give you a very short list of reasons why authoritarian deliberation may actually help the dictators.

It became this economic sanctuary, where they could do penance for their profit making tendencies at five cents on the dollar.

Maybe the problem is just an authoritarian culture in the region, and some Muslims have been influenced by that.

We have to cure ourselves of the notion that we are authoritarian, that we can determine everything that happens.

And it is no secret that many Islamic movements in the Middle East tend to be authoritarian, and some of the so called Islamic regimes such as Saudi Arabia, Iran and the worst case was the Taliban in Afghanistan they are pretty authoritarian.

Most governments followed the dictate of the authoritarian leaders to stay away from these different groups, because they were terrorists.

So that's why I've always been fascinated with how technology could actually reshape and open up authoritarian societies like ours.

For example, some traits, like IQ or criminal tendencies, are more affected by your DNA than the house that you grew up in.

Maybe we should live with this kind of authoritarian situation that we find ourselves in, instead of having the second scenario.

And finally, the purpose of any authoritarian deliberation efforts is usually to increase the legitimacy of the regimes, both at home and abroad.

If you do this again and again, the propensity, the tendencies for anger to arise again will be less and less each time you dissolve it.

They were pious people, but they were also really aggressive capitalists, and they were accused of extreme forms of profit making tendencies, compared to the other colonists.

In other words, the unorthodox tendencies towards own life, which threaten the natural erosion of the family unit, will no longer have the biological support of the organism.

I have seen almost the same faces for kings and presidents ruling us old, aged, authoritarian, corrupt situations regimes that we have seen around us.

Now, it takes time, because it took time for all those faults in our mind, the tendencies, to build up, so it will take time to unfold them as well.

They may have become slower, but the activists could still access it and actually argue that having access to them is actually great for many authoritarian states.

Because even what has been happening up 'til now with the Spinternet and authoritarian deliberation, there is a great chance that those voices will not be heard.

This is what political scientists call authoritarian deliberation, and it happens when governments are actually reaching out to their critics and letting them engage with each other online.

If you look at the statistical evidence worldwide, there's really no support for the idea that authoritarian governments hold a systematic edge over democracies in terms of economic growth.

And that regime that we got rid of was actually a dictatorship, an authoritarian regime, that for decades created a great sense of paralysis within the nation, within the people themselves.

It's not simply corruption and waste that you create you essentially replace the priorities of the Afghan government, the elected Afghan government, with the micromanaging tendencies of foreigners on short tours with their own priorities.

We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no rules option.

I think morality is much more than what I've been talking about, but it would be impossible without these ingredients that we find in other primates, which are empathy and consolation, pro social tendencies and reciprocity and a sense of fairness.