Word: authoritarianismã
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...First, the biggest obstacle to a broader audience is political scientists’ use of jargon. Mangled terms like “import-substituting industrialization” and “competitive authoritarianism?? litter the typical textbook. In theory, these labels should make the discipline more precise, but in practice, they make it inaccessible. Not only are they hard for casual readers to understand, they also are difficult for students to remember. What is “amoral familism” again...
...fetishizing unregulated markets,” which provides an excuse to rationalize rising wealth inequalities. Under the heading of “aggressive militarism” he includes everything from America’s invasion of Iraq to domestic violence. And by the “dogma of increasing authoritarianism?? he means a mindset that has allowed the United States to, according to West, violate the rights of prisoners of war captured abroad in Iraq and Afghanistan and to racially profile Arab-Americans at home...
Ellen had been teaching at the time, and was sick of “that kind of authoritarianism?? so common in math classes...
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