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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