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From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dictatorship and to prevent the rise of a new one. [1] The book was written in 1993 by Gene Sharp (1928–2018), a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts .
That matches a separate AP-NORC report, published April 3, that "only 3 in 10 think democracy in the United States is functioning well, while about half believe it is a poorly functioning democracy."
Totalitarian democracy is a dictatorship based on the mass enthusiasm generated by a perfectionist ideology. [1] The conflict between the state and the individual should not exist in a totalitarian democracy, and in the event of such a conflict, the state has the moral duty to coerce the individual to obey. [ 2 ]
This idea has been discussed by various thinkers, including John Stuart Mill in On Liberty' [2] and Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A tyranny of the majority can ensue when democracy is distorted either by an excess of centralization [ 5 ] or when the people abandon a wider perspective to "rule upon numbers, not upon ...
Too many want a dictatorship. Too many leaders pander to people’s worst instincts. In a recent CNN op-ed, former Judge J. Michael Luttig explains how the American experiment can soon fail. He ...
The loophole would permit the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship. Gödel told his friend Oskar Morgenstern about the existence of the flaw and Morgenstern told Albert Einstein about it at the time, but Morgenstern, in his recollection of the incident in 1971, never mentioned the exact problem as Gödel saw it. This has ...
The Democracy-Dictatorship Index has the main regime types of "democracy" and "dictatorship" and three sub-types for each as well. Democracies can be either parliamentary, semi-presidential, or presidential and dictatorships can be civilian, military, or royal. Many countries which are seen as otherwise democratic are dictatorships because ...
In the Spanish language, the pun word dictablanda is sometimes used for a dictatorship conserving some of the liberties and mechanisms of democracy. The pun is that, in Spanish, dictadura is "dictatorship", dura is "hard" and blanda is "soft". Analogously, the same pun is made in Portuguese as ditabranda or ditamole.