dictatorship

Examples of dictatorship in the following topics:

• Dictatorship and Totalitarianism

  • Dictatorships govern without consent of the people and in totalitarian dictatorships the power to govern extends to all aspects of life.
  • Nazi Germany may be the most familiar example of a totalitarian dictatorship.
  • Dictatorship and totalitarianism are often associated, but they are actually two separate phenomena.
  • Dictatorship is a form of government in which the ruler has the power to govern without consent of those being governed.
  • Many dictatorships are also totalitarian.

• Developer Guidelines

  • some indication of how development is usually done and how decisions are made—is the project a benevolent dictatorship, a democracy, or something else
  • No pejorative sense is intended by "dictatorship", by the way.
  • (See the section called "Forkability" in the chapter Social and Political Infrastructure for why dictatorship in open source projects doesn't have the same implications as dictatorship in other areas of life.)

• Non-Democratic Governments: Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, and Dictatorship

  • A dictatorship is defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual: a dictator.
  • In other words, dictatorship concerns the source of the governing power and totalitarianism concerns the scope of the governing power.
  • The wave of military dictatorships in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century left a particular mark on Latin American culture.
  • In Latin American literature, the dictator novel challenging dictatorship is a significant genre.
  • There are also many films depicting Latin American military dictatorships.

• Dictatorship by Release Owner

• Introduction to Consensus-based Democracy

  • As projects get older, they tend to move away from the benevolent dictatorship model and toward more openly democratic systems.
  • Even if they did, the resulting dictatorship would still be conditional: the group anointed the BD, clearly the group could depose the BD.

• Structure of the Directory

  • The Directory, a five-member committee that governed France from November 1795 to November 1799, failed to reform the disastrous economy, relied heavily on army and violence, and represented another turn towards dictatorship during the French Revolution.
  • This effectively led to Bonaparte's dictatorship and eventually (in 1804) to his proclamation as emperor. which brought to a close the specifically republican phase of the French Revolution.
  • Its achievements were minor and approach reflected another turn towards dictatorship and the failure of liberal democracy under.

• Napoleon's Constitution

  • The constitution preserved the appearance of a republic but in reality established a dictatorship.
  • By consolidating power, Bonaparte was able to transform the aristocratic constitution of Sieyès into a dictatorship.
  • Napoleon established a political system that historian Martyn Lyons called "dictatorship by plebiscite." 

• Marxism-Leninism

  • The socialist state, representing a "dictatorship of the proletariat" (as opposed to that of the bourgeoisie) is governed by the party of the revolutionary vanguard through the process of democratic centralism, which Vladimir Lenin described as "diversity in discussion, unity in action."
  • In Marxist philosophy, Leninism is the body of political theory for the democratic organisation of a revolutionary vanguard party, and the achievement of a dictatorship of the proletariat, as political prelude to the establishment of the socialist mode of production, developed by Lenin.
  • Stalin's regime was a totalitarian state under his dictatorship.

• Introduction to Share Management Tasks as Well as Technical Tasks

  • Below we'll examine these roles, and a couple of others, in detail (except for release manager, which was already covered in the section called "Release manager" and the section called "Dictatorship by Release Owner").

• Money Can't Buy You Love

  • The need for the funders to play by the same rules as everyone else means that the Benevolent Dictatorship governance model (see the section called "Benevolent Dictators" in Social and Political Infrastructure) is slightly harder to pull off in the presence of funding, particularly if the dictator works for the primary funder.
  • Since a dictatorship has few rules, it is hard for the funder to prove that it's abiding by community standards, even when it is.