| There can be and have been intolerant democracies and reasonably tolerant autocracies. |
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| It's an anarchic assemblage of petty autocracies with numerous additional charismatic nobles advising the autarchs. |
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| Our government and the corporations whose investments it protects have propped up corrupt monarchies and single-party autocracies. |
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| Aid agencies subsidized the worst collectivist autocracies, underwriting the very policies responsible for Third World poverty. |
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| And states in transition are more likely than either stable democracies or autocracies to become involved in wars. |
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| According to the magazine, people living in low-income democracies live, on average, nine years longer than their counterparts in autocracies. |
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| Consider, for instance, the power that AI brings to the apparatus of state security, in both autocracies and democracies. |
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| Consolidated autocracies are often based on strong presidential or one-party systems, with economic power derived from political patronage. |
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| Poor democracies have grown at least as fast as poor autocracies and have significantly outperformed the latter on most indicators of social well-being. |
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| But autocracies suffer setbacks too, and usually for one overwhelming reason. |
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| All current Arab autocracies, like Mr Hussein's, centre on tight networks of one clan, sect or class. |
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| As an absolute monarchy there was comfort in an Arab world of other autocracies. |
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| Democracy analysts note the increasingly negative role China and other powerful autocracies have played in neighboring countries. |
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| Regardless, we must remember that, while we are at war with no democracy, we have had to intervene in a lot of autocracies in the last twenty years. |
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| By conventional definitions, most people continue to live in democracies or partly free 3 conditions rather than autocracies. |
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| Under this light everything can be examined, theocracy, the different types of autocracies, aristocracy, anarchy, bureaucracy, imperialism,...etc. |
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| All the rest range from the nastiest of tyrannies, such as Libya's, to the more benevolent autocracies, such as Qatar's, with shades of authoritarian and oligarchic regimes in between. |
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| Those engaged in economic activity in autocracies are generally linked to the regime, which magnifies the potential impact of commercial reprisals for supporting opposition parties. |
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| The American University of Kuwait recently launched the country's first course in Gulf history. But Gulf autocracies and academic freedoms are not always an easy fit. |
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| Because of the demands made by different peoples, and in the light of the new political order that has resulted, irremovable autocracies have seen their foundations shaken, if not destroyed. |
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| The general prediction is that ethnopolitical conflicts should be more numerous and intense in newly democratic and quasi-democratic states than in institutionalized democracies or autocracies. |
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| Democracies like them no more than autocracies. |
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| Combined with the US guardianship over the Saudi kingdom and the other oil autocracies of the Gulf, it puts Washington in a position of directly controlling almost half of world oil reserves. |
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| It also conveys a deeper message to new and emerging democracies that while autocracies are inherently isolated and fearful of the outside world, democracies can count on international allies and an active support system. |
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| As the number of autocracies in the world began to decline in the late 1980s, the number of anocracies began to increase. |
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