Re: [WikiEN-l] Classification of China?

No there is no official body of definition, there is simply what most of us mean by "authoritarian" as the concept is used to refer to certain patterns of behavior.

Fred

From: Daniel Ehrenberg <littledanehren@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:45:44 -0700 (PDT)
To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Classification of China?

Yes, but who sets those criteria? Even if there were some official body of definitions of terms for government classification, there would still be those who opposed it.
-LittleDan

Fred Bauder <fredbaud@ctelco.net> wrote:

I intend to speak truth. China (and the Catholic church, for another example) are authoritarian. \ It is not merely a matter of the opinion of vague critics. There are objective criteria which if met constitute an authoritarian government.

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