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Authoritarianism is a political stance generally known as about the idea of advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.

v t e Authoritarian and totalitarian forms of government
Forms	Absolute monarchy Autocracy Constitutional dictatorship Communist state Dictatorship Dominant-party system Mafia state Military dictatorship One-party state Oligarchy Theocracy
Concepts	Authoritarian capitalism Authoritarian democracy Authoritarian socialism Fascism Illiberal democracy Imperialism Inverted totalitarianism Nazism Right-wing authoritarianism Social engineering Soft tyranny Marxism–Leninism Third Position Tyranny

Conformity

Enforcement

Proscription	Ostracism Cancel culture Censorship Blacklisting Outlaw Civil death Vogelfrei Enemy of the people Enemy of the state Public enemy
Group pressure	Brainwashing Collectivism Dogma Emotional contagion Copycat suicide Behavioral Crime Hysterical Hazing Invented tradition Mobbing Nationalism Patriotism Peer pressure Propaganda Shunning Social influence Teasing Bandwagon effect Consensus reality Deplatforming Fear of missing out Groupthink Herd mentality Indoctrination Memory conformity Milieu control Normalization Normative social influence Pluralistic ignorance Rally 'round the flag effect Scapegoating Socialization Spiral of silence Tyranny of the majority Untouchability Xeer
Individual pressure	Authoritarianism Personality Control freak Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder

Conformity

Experiments

Anticonformity

Counterconformists	Cagot Damnatio memoriae Dissident Exile Homo sacer Nonperson Outcast Persona non grata

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