neo-authoritarianism

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

neo- +‎ authoritarianism

Noun

neo-authoritarianism (uncountable)

  1. A post-Maoist current in Chinese political thought favoring enlightened autocracy.
    • 2019 March 20, Fu, Hualing, “Touching the Proverbial Elephant: The Multiple Shades of Chinese Law”, in China Perspectives‎, volume 2019, number 1, →ISSN, pages 3–9:
      As neo-authoritarianism advances, the [Chinese Communist] Party moves to the front stage and becomes hands-on in managing important affairs, crowding out legal rules and institutions. It has expanded and solidified a prerogative state to solve politically sensitive matters through substantively extra-legal methods.
  2. Any present-day phenomenon of authoritarianism.
    • 2021 May 10, Tomba, Massimiliano, “Neo-Authoritarianism without Authority”, in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture‎, volume 23, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN:
      Neo-authoritarianism has neither fascist black shirts nor the Nazi’s brown-shirts. It would be misleading to try to understand the neo-authoritarian phenomenon by focusing on some groups that exhibit the swastika.

References
  • Li, He (2015), “Neo-authoritarianism”, in Political Thought and China’s Transformation: Ideas Shaping Reform in Post-Mao China (in English), Palgrave Macmillan UK, →ISBN, pages 31–45
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