Many Chinese have outgrown the authoritarian institutions that ignited the boom in the first place.

"But the authoritarian institutions remained in place, they just haven't been utilized."

The state parliament, supreme court and major government and authoritarian institutions also regained their status.

This was to be the third of my many run-ins with that typically British authoritarian institution, which is never happy unless making trouble.

The Catholic Church is an authoritarian institution, modelled on the political structures of the Roman Empire and medieval Europe.

Anarchists advocate resistance to oppressive and authoritarian institutions, including religious ones; and in extreme cases this may include violent resistance.

"I think there's an impression that the armed forces is a male-dominated, hierarchical, authoritarian institution," he said in an interview on Thursday.

The Church is a hierarchical, even authoritarian institution, with a self-perpetuating bureaucracy and, via the Vatican, the diplomatic and political status of a state.

Tracing Russia's relative economic underdevelopment and its authoritarian social and political institutions to the cost of maintaining a huge military establishment is scarcely new.

The Dada-tinged, very-1960's results were both a sendup of authoritarian institutions and a serious attempt to invent an anarchistic alternative model.