Meaning of prerogative state | Babel Free

Definitions

A governmental system that exercises unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees.

Examples

“Post-communist development in Russia has been characterized by the development of a dual state in which the constitutional order is balanced by the consolidation of an arbitrary prerogative state.”

“As neo-authoritarianism advances, the [Chinese Communist] Party moves to the front stage and becomes hands-on in managing important affairs, crowding out legal rules and institutions. It has expanded and solidified a prerogative state to solve politically sensitive matters through substantively extra-legal methods.”

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