Tag: authoritarianism

  • Conceptual Distinction among Dictatorships

    “Dictatorship” or “authoritarian regimes” is a residual category for political regimes (Svolik 2012: 20), meaning anything that cannot satisfy the definitions of democracy goes into this category as a dictatorship. Due to this nature, authoritarian regimes differ greatly from one another, with various shapes and sizes, and even demonstrates greater internal diversity than their distinction…

  • A Fatal Alliance

    On 17 May 2018, three months after jointly winning the national elections, Nepal’s two major communist parties, the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) announced their coalition into a unified Nepal Communist Party (NCP). Unlike most communist parties that gained power by violent means, the NCP and…