Oriental despotism

Political concept that Asian countries tend to be more authoritarian

Oriental despotism refers to the Western view of Asian societies as politically or morally more suspectible to despotic rule, and therefore different from the democratic West. This view is often pejorative. The term is often associated with Karl August Wittfogel's 1957 book Oriental Despotism.

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