However, it seems to me that controversy is just what many of these artists courted when they made these works, as they struggled against the accepted norms and received wisdoms
of an authoritarian system.
-LSB-...] their doublethink, and more time illustrating that it is possible for one to be a Christian and yet throw off the constraining shackles
of the authoritarian system that threatens them with exclusion from their community here on Earth and exclusion from heaven in -LSB-...]
In the context of China's expanding influence and attempts to gain competitive advantages against the United States, the report notes that «China is investing billions of dollars in infrastructure across the globe» as it «exploits data on an unrivaled scale and spreads features
of its authoritarian system.»
If these ideals fail to materialize and find expression in our television and other mass communication, then Bellah «s scenario of the rise of any one of a number
of authoritarian systems becomes a serious alternative.
Not exact matches
As Western leaders, policy - makers, and journalists questioned whether their own
systems had failed, Chinese leaders began to more explicitly promote their
authoritarian capitalist model
of development.
When the mass insecurities fostered by a society in rapid transition reinforce the feeling
of vulnerability derived from personal autonomy, people tend to «escape from freedom»; they lose their anxiety but also their freedom by overidentifying with some
authoritarian ideology, leader, or
system, political or religious.
For example, it argued that liberalism, contrary to its critics, is not a
system of doctrines but simply a method
of inquiry — a free method unbound by orthodoxy's rigid and
authoritarian norms.
He also points out, however, that the market
system removes some kinds
of inequality, such as those in feudal and
authoritarian systems in which the people holding political power dictate the economic distribution as well.
I have a dream that multitudes
of God's people will no longer tolerate those man - made
systems that have put them in religious bondage and under a pile
of guilt, duty, condemnation, making them slaves to
authoritarian systems and leaders.
Nothing could lend itself to totalitarian
systems or
authoritarian religions more readily than a unity - principle that permits
of no plurality in its expression and realization.
While improving democracies is important, we should not let the ardor
of our rhetoric in fixing our democracy lead us to blur the international line between democracies and
authoritarian systems...
Many
of those backing the militant Islamic groups, including some generals, are not particularly Islamic themselves, but are trying to erode democracy and return Indonesia to an
authoritarian system with a large role for the military.
Francis Fukuyama argues that the only neo-Confucian
authoritarian system evident in recent East Asian experience was the government
of pre-war Japan (Fukuyama, 1995).
There is a sense in which the two economic
systems [free market capitalism versus state - driven capitalism] are ideological opponents; there is discussion
of whether the
authoritarian economic model is better able than the United States» to deliver positive outcomes.
He argued that the fascism was chosen over communism in Germany, because
of repressive family, a harmful religion and
authoritarian educational
system.
Unfortunately, I think that's kind
of inevitable - any
system that requires a centrally planned economy over multiple communities is going to favor a very rigid top - down form
of government, which lends itself to
authoritarian rule.
Unfortunately, the benefits
of freedom and non-authoritanizm take a while to materialize, while the downsides can happen pretty quickly (
authoritarian regimes, at least, typically enforce some semibalance
of law and order), while the proper, non-corrupt, justice
system is hard and difficult to build from scratch.
In November alone, prime minister David Cameron visited the
authoritarian leaders
of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as a salesman for BAE
Systems» Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft, while the Emir
of Kuwait has been treated to a state banquet at Windsor Castle at which another guest was BAE's chair, Dick Olver.
You could overthrow the current democratic political process and the institutions that support / defend it and replace it with an
authoritarian system where by a head
of state more to your liking could be appointed.
Much
of the contemporary literature on the topic focuses on the domestic factors that enable these competitive
authoritarian regimes to stay in power, however I focus on the global ontology, or the character
of the world as it actually is, and how it has proved to be very conducive to this type
of political
system over the past decade.
Even worse, the administration's
authoritarian attempts to impose a single instructional approach throughout the
system have so demoralized and frightened rank - and - file teachers that it is now virtually impossible for the city to get much - needed reforms
of work rules in the next teachers» contract.
Chu and her family currently live in Shanghai, where her son, Rainey, attends local schools — part
of a Chinese education
system that is renowned for its academic results yet notorious for some
of its more -
authoritarian methods.
Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially
authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job
of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all
of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an
authoritarian, top - down
system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?
Giroux caricatures the traditional classroom as one where «students sit in rows staring at the back
of each others» heads and at the teacher who faces them in symbolic,
authoritarian fashion»; «events are governed by a rigid time schedule imposed by a
system of bells and reinforced by cues from teachers»; we «glorify the teacher as the expert [and] dispenser
of knowledge»; «social relationships... are based upon power relations inextricably linked to the teacher's allotment
of grades»; and tracking «alienates students from schooling.»
The traditional education
system in China is often criticized for encouraging conformity, being highly examination - oriented, discouraging the development
of students» creativity, and bolstering
authoritarian teachers for whom the rigid and centralized curriculum is a more important agenda than catering to individual differences among students (Cheng, 2004).
Ever since the compulsory state government education
system was created more than 150 years ago there have been important educational pioneers who have disagreed with the traditional
authoritarian approach
of most schools.
Communism: A totalitarian
system of government in which a single
authoritarian government party controls state - owned means
of production.
Lawrence Gipe's practice addresses themes
of power and the visual propaganda produced by
authoritarian political
systems, historic and present - day.
While I suspect there will always be a need for
authoritarian and perhaps adversarial court processes to address truly intractable individuals and problems
of genuine urgency, I worry that a reconceptualization
of the
system may call for more than triage processes and the co-locatation
of social services, both
of which are reconfigurations
of existing services, but may demand a fundamental reconsideration
of our basic assumptions and a critically examination
of alternatives such as inquisitorial processes, abridged trial procedures, non-adversarial judging techniques, the embedding
of mental health professionals in decision - making processes and so forth.
In this way the
authoritarian parent is «submissive» to various forms
of authority (people or
systems).
A higher score on the dimension
system maintenance — also referred to as the dimension
of «family control» (Jongerden and Bögels 2015)-- indicates a less organized, more hierarchical (and
authoritarian) family with a higher external locus
of control and more enmeshment.