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dictatorship, tyranny, absolutism, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, bakufu | a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | |
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despotism, absolutism, tyranny | dominance through threat of punishment and violence |