postdictatorial

Definitions

After a dictatorship has ended.

not-comparable

Examples

“Rojas was expected to bring⟳ peace, prosperity, and even remedies for Colombia’s desperate social problems that still lurk—and perhaps more so in the present⟳ postdictatorial period than ever before—as the greatest danger to the nation’s long-range stability.”

“In practice, the four postdictatorial presidents have⟳ reflected a movement away from democratic-caesarist patterns of behavior.”

“In postdictatorial Brazil, where of late the most complicitous forms of forgetting have⟳ thrived to the point⟳ of hegemonizing the polis and its institutions—determining, even legislatively, how the past is to be dealt with—to speak⟳ of any kind of forgetting, however active, can surely lead⟳ to a good deal⟳ of misunderstanding.”

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