neo-authoritarianism

English

Alternative forms

• neoauthoritarianism

Etymology

neo- +‎ authoritarianism

Noun

neo-authoritarianism (uncountable)

1. A post-Maoist current in Chinese political thought favoring enlightened autocracy.
   • 2019 March 20, Hualing Fu, “Touching the Proverbial Elephant: The Multiple Shades of Chinese Law”, in China Perspectives‎^[1], 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, Massimiliano Tomba, “Neo-Authoritarianism without Authority”, in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture‎^[2], 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, Palgrave Macmillan UK, →ISBN, pages 31–45