How to pronounce “autocrat” in English

Autocratic, dictatorial, laying down the law.

oppressive government autocratic government things like that and you get a refugee crisis that's having effects on global elections in England with

are examples of non autocratic states where entrepreneurship was still at the center of of of policy um but your point

leadership on occasion acted autocratically in an arbitrary manner.

It was not an autocratic central bank. And then about the beginning of 2008, Bernanke realized that, when things get bad, there's a reason that committees have a chairman.

always going to be autocratic I think there are real forces for change right now and forces that we can we can help

broad-based opportunity are vulnerable to autocratic capture.

that we witnessed in pretty much every autocratic country, or country that used to be free and then became autocratic.

what I would call like an autocratic breakthrough, they might, yeah, they might completely blow up their own movement, right?

So there's five core tactics that autocratic leaders use to dismantle a democracy. Could you walk me through the five tactics?

once you have an an autocratic state that can do what it wants legally, then it can decide which companies succeed.

the democratic world and the autocratic world. So I think what what you're seeing is the breakdown of an older

You're going to either have autocratic decision making.

And I can lead that autocratically within my responsibilities and any constraints that we have defined in governance together.

possible to do something that autocrats live in real fear of that uh and that they will push back now an important

natural gas so the danger to autocratic regimes is that usually they don't deliver very well they're not there

Now a majority of countries are more democratic than autocratic.

very very quickly it became difficult for the autocrats in Paraguay to say no no but we we will benefit from from our

And the autocrats know that.

I've heard you say that there's five core tactics that autocratic leaders use to dismantle a democracy. Could you walk

And a majority of people live in countries that are more democratic and autocratic.

Rwanda so the question is both Singapore and Rwanda coincidentally or not are autocratic Nations what bearing does

You can't win that-- kind of that hand of poker against the more autocratic regimes and against the Russians.

it's a very militarized, autocratic version of development.

of China that actually led to growth, not autocratic impulses. You must see both of them together.

promotion what happens when we are trying to bring democratic reform to an autocratic Ally in the war on terror

Nonetheless, if you scale every country in terms of how autocratic or democratic it is and add them all up, you see that the world has never

Or it can take a more kind of like strongman, autocratic leadership that builds a very efficient state

Then in the Islamic world, that was whatever it's called is the autocratic system that determined the hierarchy. Now for the first time in history, the various regions of the

It may be just as hierarchical, and indeed, autocratic, but it is at least down under a veneer of communal action.

That King Friday, for example, is the autocratic CEO and you can begin to identify the other characters.

Everything is different. The King even enjoys-- the King Friday is the stand in for the autocratic CEO-- even enjoys talking with employees.

find ways to undermine it and shut it up because it it it um points out the flaws um under these autocratic systems but

Because, in fact, the leader of Bolivia at the time was not this unpopular, unelected autocrat.

political exile, supporter of Duvalier, the Haitian dictator, autocrat.

to speak their mind, to have a voice. In the context, in the geopolitical context that you're mentioning that governments when they become autocratic, naturally it's the way of the

country? So the US could become a what I think on this map is described as an autocratic

Union, we want to be integrated with Europe, he's afraid of that happening in Russia because if you live in an autocratic state where you don't have

Mhm. Corruption you have in any political system, and you often have it in democracies, too. But in an autocratic

that people start to push back against existing mechanisms that run society and provide all sorts of interesting things like security, whether or not you think they're too autocratic

It seems to me that you also hear, as a part of the broader conversation, that India maybe should course correct and take on a more right wing, autocratic--

Nonetheless, I don't think that there is as much reason for pessimism as there are in some of these other autocratic countries.

Latin America, Africa, and Asia, which had been largely autocratic, became largely democratic

And that is, I think, the really deep, really fundamental Chinese structure, which is also collective, autocratic society

So one story that you may have heard is that late last fall-- this past fall the people of Ukraine took to the streets to protest a corrupt autocratic leader who

show our love for others." Now, in a good organization you do it with your employees, not didactically, not necessarily autocratically.

the Committee to Protect Journalists, an organization which defends freedom of the press and journalists' rights worldwide against autocratic governments for the first time

failing democracies with pathologies like vote buying and chasing after natural resources, the kind of things that Paul Collier describes so well. And then you can find autocratic

systems that fail so you're all quantitatively oriented. If you have a two by two box with high and low economic performance and somewhere between democratic and autocratic on the other