Editing Dictator (section)

==== Benevolent dictatorship ====
{{Main|Benevolent dictatorship}}
A [[benevolent dictatorship]] refers to a government in which an authoritarian leader exercises absolute political power over the state but is perceived to do so with regard for the benefit of the population as a whole, standing in contrast to the decidedly malevolent stereotype of a dictator. A benevolent dictator may allow for some [[civil liberties]] or [[democracy|democratic decision-making]] to exist, such as through public [[referendum]]s or [[elect]]ed [[Representative democracy|representative]]s with limited power, and often makes preparations for a [[Democratization|transition to genuine democracy]] during or after their term. The label has been applied to leaders such as [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] of [[Turkey]]	(1923–38),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Atatürk, Ghazi Mustapha Kemal (1881–1938) {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ataturk-ghazi-mustapha-kemal-1881-1938 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref> [[Josip Broz Tito]] of [[SFR Yugoslavia]] (1953–80),<ref name="shapiro">{{cite book |last1=Shapiro |first1=Susan |last2=Shapiro |first2=Ronald |title=The Curtain Rises: Oral Histories of the Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe |publisher=McFarland |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-7864-1672-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oCqWFQ1WKlkC&pg=PA180 |ref=Shapiro_2004 |access-date=2019-01-19 |archive-date=2021-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512060314/https://books.google.com/books?id=oCqWFQ1WKlkC&pg=PA180 |url-status=live }}<br />"...All Yugoslavs had educational opportunities, jobs, food, and housing regardless of nationality. Tito, seen by most as a benevolent dictator, brought peaceful co-existence to the Balkan region, a region historically synonymous with factionalism."</ref> and [[Lee Kuan Yew]] of Singapore (1959–90).<ref>{{Cite news |title=What Singapore can teach us |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-singapore-can-teach-us/2012/05/02/gIQAlQEGwT_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2012-05-02 |access-date=2015-11-25 |issn=0190-8286 |first=Matt |last=Miller |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311045232/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-singapore-can-teach-us/2012/05/02/gIQAlQEGwT_story.html |archive-date=2016-03-11 |url-status=live }}</ref>