civilian rule
Non-military government control
Civilian rule is government controlled by non-military citizens rather than armed forces.
The term appears most often in discussions of countries transitioning from military dictatorship: After decades of junta control, the country returned to civilian rule.
It implies democratic accountability and the subordination of military power to elected officials.
- democracyRule by the people
- democratic transitionShift from autocracy to elected rule
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
- free electionsUncoerced public choosing of representatives
- electionsFormal choosing of officials
popular vote · parliament · government · checks and balances · sovereignty · freedom · human rights · voting · citizens · republic · legislature · peaceful · power transfer · transition · ballot · oversight · accountability · due process
- Korea 1990sdemocratization, chaebol, Hyundai, Samsung, economic crisis
- Chilean historyPinochet, military junta, plebiscite, dictatorship, independence movement
- Uganda HistoryIdi Amin, Kampala, Entebbe, 1962, dictatorship
- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
civilian rulemilitary rule
Government by armed forces
military dictatorship · junta · military junta · military government · martial law
civilian ruledictatorship
Unchecked single-ruler government
autocracy · tyranny · despotism · totalitarianism · police state
civilian, rule, civil, civility, civilly, incivility, civilize, civilized, civilization