military rule
Generals control government
Military rule is government by armed forces rather than civilian authorities, typically established through coup d'état and maintained by martial power.
It usually involves suspension of constitutional rights, censorship, and rule by decree.
Military rule may be temporary—pending restoration of civilian government—or may persist indefinitely: The country endured two decades of military rule.
- juntaPost-coup ruling clique
- coup d'étatViolent government seizure
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- armed forcesNation's combined military services
dictatorship · human rights abuses · protests · Francoist Spain · economic stagnation · detention centers · propaganda · civil disobedience · autocracy · generalissimo · centralized power · despotism · secret police · show trials · putsch · surveillance · crackdown · guerrilla warfare
- rule typesdemocracy, autocracy, oligarchy, theocracy, aristocracy
- BrazilRio, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Amazon River
- governancegovernance, government, democracy, vote, parliament
- governmentsdemocracy, monarchy, autocracy, oligarchy, republic
- PortugalLisbon, Porto, Algarve, Oporto, Madeira
- Puerto RicoSan Juan, Puerto Rico, Carolina, Old San Juan, Arecibo
military rulecivilian rule
Government by elected officials
democracy · democratic governance · representative government · parliamentary democracy · popular sovereignty
military ruleliberal democracy
Rights-based elected governance
free society · open society · constitutional democracy · pluralism · libertarianism
military rulelegitimate authority
Accepted right to command
constitutional authority · rule of law · consent of the governed