Tag: World Politics

Authoritarian Countries

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Authoritarian countries are states where political power is concentrated and public competition for power is restricted, controlled, or mostly symbolic. Some are one-party states, some are monarchies, some are military regimes, and others hold elections that do not give voters a fair way to replace the government. There is no official United Nations list of […]

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Communist Countries: Current List & Meaning

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Most people searching for communist countries want a simple list. The useful answer is simple at first, but the details matter because “communist” can mean a ruling party, a constitutional ideology, an economic model, or the theoretical end goal of communism. The clearest way to read the term is this: countries normally called communist today […]

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