competitive authoritarianism

English

Noun

competitive authoritarianism (countable and uncountable, plural competitive authoritarianisms)

  1. A hybrid regime, a form of authoritarianism that still allows electoral competition.
    Near-synonym: illiberal democracy
    • 2025 March 28, Amanda Taub, “For Some Autocrats, Even Rigged Elections Can Be Too Much of a Threat”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      Over the last two decades, countries like Turkey, Hungary, Venezuela and India gave the world a lesson on how democracy can erode into “competitive authoritarianism” — a system in which elections are still meaningful, but leaders manipulate the rules to their own benefit, while systematically violating civil liberties.
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