Sentences with phrase «towards authoritarianism»

Some critics have questioned the importance of democracy in Africa and have advocated vehemently for an authoritative leadership, but Dr Kofi Annan said «authoritative leadership is a slippery slope towards authoritarianism.»

In fifth place this week is an article which pointed towards comments made by Alex Salmond about banning «all Donald Trumps» from Scotland and the passing of a law which could see football fans questioned and arrested just for the clothes they are wearing, as evidence that Scotland is drifting towards authoritarianism under the SNP.

The silence assists the drift towards authoritarianism.

To join and stay in the EU, member states must be democracies — that means unelected European Commissioners, and even other heads of other member states, do not pronounce on member state democratic politics (unless a country is veering towards authoritarianism — in which case the EU treaty has clear procedures for this — see Article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:115:SOM:en:HTML).

In «China's «Networked Authoritarianism»,» she shows how «strong governments in weak or new democracies are using second - and third - generation Internet controls in ways that contribute to the erosion of democracy and slippage back towards authoritarianism.»