An illiberal democracy describes a governing system in which, although elections take place, citizens are cut off from knowledge about the activities of those who exercise real power because of the lack of civil liberties; thus it is not an open society.. The rulers of an illiberal democracy may ignore or bypass constitutional limits on their power.They also tend to ignore the will of the ...

I define populism as a thin-centered ideology that considers society to be ultimately separated into two homogenous and antagonistic groups: “the pure people” and “the corrupt elite,” and argues that politics should be an expression of the volonté générale (general will) of the people (Mudde 2004; Mudde and Rovira Kaltwasser 2017 ...

Jul 29, 2014 · Meaning, that Hungarian nation is not a simple sum of individuals, but a community that needs to be organized, strengthened and developed, and in this sense, the new state that we are building is an illiberal state, a non-liberal state. It does not deny foundational values of liberalism, as freedom, etc..

Parsimonious definition, characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy. See more.

Oct 16, 2019 · Germany’s new socialist government was challenged from the right by those unsatisfied with the peace, and from the far left by those who wanted to push forward to revolution. As in much of ...

Illicit definition, not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful. See more.

Mar 27, 2022 · The national identity the Russian President has helped promulgate—illiberal, imperial, resentful of the West—has played an essential role in his brutal invasion of Ukraine.

The illiberal values inherent in these causes have been imported from neo-Marxism, radical feminism, critical race theory, sexual revolutionary politics, …

Jun 09, 2020 · Illiberal governments worldwide are using the pandemic as cover for restricting media freedom and cracking down on political opposition and civil society. Although the United States still enjoys military supremacy, that dimension of U.S. dominance is especially ill suited to deal with this global crisis and its ripple effects.

in- (1) word-forming element meaning "not, opposite of, without" (also im-, il-, ir-by assimilation of -n-with following consonant, a tendency which began in later Latin), from Latin in-"not," cognate with Greek an-, Old English un-, all from PIE root *ne-"not.". In Old French and Middle English often en-, but most of these forms have not survived in Modern English, and the few that do (enemy ...