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Dictionary of the Social Sciences

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2002
Subject:
Social sciences
Length:
51 words

A state in which the police and/or military exercise unlimited power and dominate the political system. Terror, secrecy, surveillance, detention,

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