autocratically

autocratic | Business English

autocratic
adjective
 POLITICS, WORKPLACEuk /ˌɔːtəˈkrætɪk/us
controlled by one leader who has total power, and who does not allow anyone else to make decisions:
autocratic leadership/management/companyAn autocratic management style often results in high staff turnover and low employee morale.
an autocratic regime/government/leader

Examples of autocratic

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In contrast, leaders exercising concentrated power in an autocratic regime are well-placed to seek rents, since few checks exist on their activities.
Unless such leaders are primarily interested in promoting social welfare, a highly concentrated autocratic regime is unlikely to engage in commercial reforms.
Leaders in autocratic regimes were unwilling to apply either for purely domestic reasons or because they at least anticipated little or no chance of success.
The objective was to lessen superficial support for democracy by also asking about autocratic regimes.
Accordingly, they extol the virtues of a monarch who, although autocratic, was also enlightened and improved the lot of his people.
Consequently, the autocratic-paternalistic orientation which prevailed in the early days of small business finds expression in arbitrary administrative practice in the new and complex enterprise.
Political change is moving at a very slow pace despite claims to the contrary by autocratic leaders.
This negative effect, moreover, should apply to both democratic and autocratic regimes.
Rather, the concern has been to show how a monarchical and autocratic regime manifested and legitimized itself in the public sphere.
I mean, the man was brilliant, but he was also very autocratic.
He argues that, in the early times an autocratic government committed to economic development had a 'minimalist' approach to social policy.
In common parlance, leaders most prefer autocratic regimes with universal suffrage (implying rigged elections).
Secular authority was denied "any right of autocratic interference" with this dharma.
And the paramount does not seem to have enjoyed the autocratic powers characteristic of the southern lowlands dynasts.
Democracies do not do noticeably better than autocratic regimes, but countries that extend economic freedoms and protect property rights grow faster.
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