Identify one country that is currently in the news that fits the definition of a semi-authoritarian regime

Read the articles, “Institutional Characteristics and Regime Survival: Why are Semi-Democracies Less Durable than Autocracies and Democracies?“by Knutson and Nygard (2015), and “Legal Manoeuvres and Violence: Law Making, Protest and Semi-Authoritarianism in Uganda,” by Goodfellow (2014), which are required reading for this week. Based on these articles, respond to the following:

What do the authors mean by semi-authoritarian regimes?

Identify one country that is currently in the news that fits the definition of a semi-authoritarian regime.

Why do you identify this country as such?

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Regimes that cannot be classified as either democratic or authoritarian but display characteristics of each are semi-authoritarian regimes. These regimes have adopted traits of democracy such as allowing to some extent political freedom to its citizens, allowing separation of powers and contesting for presidential and parliamentary……………………………

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