Authoritarian (uh-thawr-i-tair-ee-uhn)
Authoritarian is a term which refers to favoring or demanding blind obedience to leaders.
Despite Americans' belief in democracy, our government has often decided it was/is okay to defeat authoritarian regimes in other countries without consulting their citizenry and without being asked to intervene.
Example 2 (family systems): In my husband's authoritarian family he was expected to obey his parents without resistance and without ever questioning "why?"
(Source: Mastering the Miller Analogies Test, Arco, 2006; www.milleranalogies.com/; http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/authoritarian; http://smith.soehd.csufresno.edu/system.html; http://www.mommiemayhem.com)
Compiled by Patricia and Otto Ladensack
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