By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz, and Joseph Wright, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2020 I’ll be watching you: outside a mosque in Xinjiang, China, June 2008 Kadir Van Lohuizen / Noor / Redux The Stasi, East Germany’s state security service, may have been one of the most pervasive secret police agencies that ever existed. It was infamous for its capacity to … [Read more...] about The Digital Dictators: How Technology Strengthens Autocracy
Types of Authoritarian regimes
MARKS OF THE AUTHORITARIAN STATE
A democratic society makes a clear distinction between state and society and there is a constitutional limitation on the power of the state. This consists of demarcation of activities as those, which the state is well adapted to perform, and those, which it cannot perform and hence should not interfere, in such activities. There exist a number of institutions, which keep an … [Read more...] about MARKS OF THE AUTHORITARIAN STATE