What Is A Dictatorship? 2024 Dictatorship Countries 🌎 Nations in Transit, Reordered Autocracy, Democracy [View all]
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I. Dictatorship Countries 2024, World Population Review, (Ed).
- The Countries with Dictatorships in the Modern World: As of 2020, there are 52 nations with a dictator or authoritarian regime ruling the country: 3 in Latin America and South America, 27 in Asia and the Middle East, and 22 in Africa.
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- Snapshot: Dictators maintain power through intimidation, imprisonment, violence, or assassination, leading to low freedom levels and loss of personal autonomy and political choice. - Some dictators alter or replace the nation's constitution to increase their power and benefit themselves and their allies, as exemplified by Putin in Russia. - 5 types of dictatorships exist: military, monarchies, personalistic, single party, and hybrid, each defined by methods of power acquisition and maintenance.
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- What is a dictatorship?
A dictatorship is a type of government in which a single person—the dictator—or party has absolute power. This means that the ruler or party has complete control. The rights of the people are typically suppressed in a dictatorship, sometimes to a great degree. Dictators are usually backed (especially financially) by groups of powerful people. Typically, dictators rise to power when a nation faces significant social issues, such as strong economic crises or unrest among the nation's people.
Dictators typically retain their power by silencing any opposition to their rulings and guidelines. This is often done via questionable means, including intimidation, imprisonment (lawful or not), physical violence, or even assassination. Dictatorships have shallow levels of freedom. Although it is true that some dictators are far more strict and overbearing than others, as a rule, dictatorships tend to result in a loss of personal autonomy, quality of life, and political choice for everyday citizens.
Negative effects include the unraveling of social organizations and democratic institutions and the prohibition of other political parties.
When necessary, a dictator may also make an effort to replace or amend the nation's constitution to empower, enrich, or otherwise benefit the dictator and his/her allies to a greater degree. An appropriate example of this occurred in 2020 when Russian president Vladimir Putin and his party introduced amendments to the country's constitution that reworked term limits, enabling Putin to remain in power until 2036. People living under a dictatorship are often persecuted for unethical reasons, including their religion, sexual orientation, or economic status.
Dictators often employ illegal and/or immoral methods to maintain their power and control, including the use of secret police, indefinite arrests, and concentration camps.
The 5 Kinds of Dictatorship: The type of dictatorship a country is ruled by typically comes down to the methods the dictator used to obtain power and how they maintain it. 1. Military 2. Monarchies 3. Personalistic 4. Single Party 5. Hybrid.. - Autocracy Countries (difference betw. an Autocracy & a Dictatorship). The terms "autocrat" and "autocracy" are often used interchangeably with "dictator" and "dictatorship". The terms are very similar, but there are 2 important differences between dictatorships and autocracies...MAP,
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/dictatorship-countries
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II. Nations in Transit 2024, Reordered Autocracy and Democracy, Freedom House. Ed. - A Region Reordered by Autocracy and Democracy. - Rebuilding Democracy in Poland, The Diversity of Hybrid Regimes, The Urgent Need for Strong Democratic Leadership
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- Key Findings: Democratic governance in the Nations in Transit region declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2023. The continued assault on basic freedoms by Eurasian autocracies and the deterioration of democratic institutions in countries ranked as Hybrid Regimes—those with a mix of autocratic and democratic features—easily outweighed the modest gains by European democracies over the past year. Of the 29 countries covered in this report, 10 suffered declines in their Democracy Score, while just 5 earned improvements.
A geopolitical reordering is underway in the region stretching from Central Europe to Central Asia.
Moscow’s ongoing attempt to destroy Ukraine and the Azerbaijani regime’s inhumane conquest of Nagorno-Karabakh demonstrated once again the deadly consequences of autocracy’s expansion. These and other events in recent years have accelerated a geopolitical reordering in the region, with countries sorting themselves into 2 opposing blocs: those committed to a liberal, democratic order and those that violently reject it. Autocracies have continued to deepen their repression while cooperating to upend international norms.
Democracy Scores declined in 4 of the 8 countries classified as Consolidated Authoritarian Regimes, as dictatorial leaders closed off the remaining space for dissent and worked to extend their rule indefinitely. These regimes have actively supported one another in evading sanctions, crushing domestic opposition, and blunting any accountability for military aggression and other violations of international law. In effect they are creating a new regional order that better suits their interests, and democracies have yet to muster an adequate response. Although most democracies upheld their standards at home, Poland’s ability to recover from backsliding will be crucial for the future of the wider region.
Four of the 5 countries that registered improvements in their Democracy Score for 2023 were already classified as Semi-Consolidated or Consolidated Democracies, reinforcing the broader polarization of the region into democratic and autocratic camps. Poland’s score declined due to unprecedented electoral manipulation by the ruling party, but an opposition coalition managed to secure victory—amid extremely high voter turnout—by campaigning on respect for the rule of law and individual rights. The result cleared the way for a new government to attempt to correct years of institutional damage under the former leadership. Hybrid Regimes were caught between the democratic and autocratic blocs...
https://freedomhouse.org/report/nations-transit/2024/region-reordered-autocracy-and-democracy