Then the authoritarian form of government will become superfluous.

The Governments of both countries offer their people freedom within limits, authoritarian forms of democracy in which criticism is tolerated only up to a point.

They are often, and perhaps even typically, characterized by authoritarian rather than democratic forms of government.

Governance by decree would become the new norm and paved the way for authoritarian forms of government.

But can less authoritarian forms of moral discipline be effective and if so, how are they to be achieved?

If not checked by popular mobilisation, their intervention may assume authoritarian forms.

In many nations, particularly those with relatively authoritarian forms of government, overt government censorship is enforced.

The tsarist leadership represented an authoritarian, conservative form of governance.

A major figure on the right was Joseph de Maistre, who argued for an authoritarian form of conservatism.

Fascism as a form of state needs to be distinguished from other authoritarian forms which are associated with particular stages in the development of capitalism.