Dictatorship

A dictatorship is a form of government characterized by a single leader or group of leaders and little or no toleration for political pluralism or independent media. According to other definitions, democracies are a form of government in which "those who govern are selected through contested elections"; therefore, dictatorships are "not democracies".With the advent of the 19th and 20th centuries, dictatorships and constitutional democracies emerged as the world's two major forms of government, gradually eliminating monarchies, one of the traditional widespread forms of government of the time. Typically, in a dictatorial regime, the leader of the country is identified with …

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TV3: Televisió de Catalunya · 14 February 2019 Catalan

rights or the spread of Islam are some of the challenges facing Mohammed VI. After the 40-year dictatorship of his father, King Hassan II, the new king's reign began promisingly. His dismissal of Driss


The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 31 October 2015 English

Yalunka, Soso, and Vai are more widely spoken in the coterminous countries of Liberia and Guinea and closely related to Mende.5 Kuranko and Kono are part of the Mandeng cluster, …

both the French colonial rule and the brutal dictatorship of Ahmed Sékou Touré. They arrived in Liberia


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 Portuguese

aprovam aumento de próprios salários apesar de protestos. Angola: regime does not accept that dictatorship is called into question, says analyst Mozambique: NGO denounces destruction of green spaces Kenya:


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 Portuguese

as ideias "neo-coloniais" do general Spínola após a revolução. The insistence of the Portuguese dictatorship on continuing the war in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique boosted the coup of 25 April 1974


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 Portuguese

mundo. Umas mais controversas que outras, as bandas marcaram a cena cultural da época. During the dictatorship in the old Portuguese colonias, the young people created groups influenced by the rock movement


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 Portuguese

princípios de desobediência civil para derrubar o regime. \ ‘Tools to Destroy Dictator and Avoid New Dictatorship\,’ the new book by Sundays of the Cross, has a clear objective: to put an end to oppression in


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 Portuguese

is in force. Marques and writer José Eduardo Agualusa, in response, speak of\ ‘threat\’ and\ ‘dictatorship\.’


Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2015 English

Nelson Mandela called the Black Sash, founded in May 1955 to contest legislation that removed coloured South Africans from the common voters’ roll in the Cape, the ‘conscience of white …

attacked the legislation as opening the door to dictatorship; while a statement from Rhodes University academics Foley, who declared, ‘We shall not submit to dictatorship.’25 Else Schreiner described the scene: 6 the extent that both offered the prospect of dictatorship.102 Indeed, the politics of protest and boycott


TV3: Televisió de Catalunya · 2015

the programme, we also travel to one of the least known countries in Europe, Belarus, the last dictatorship on the continent that has just been held\ - ‘elections.’ How do you do your president, Alexander


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2015 German

Eritrea, although it is currently troubled by neither famine nor war. They’re fleeing the grim dictatorship in what has been called the African North Korea.


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