:Authoritarian enclave
{{short description|Non-democratic subunit of a democracy}}
An authoritarian enclave is a non-democratic subunit of a democratic system.{{cite book |last1=Mickey |first1=Robert |title=Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972 |date=2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-14963-9 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Benton |first1=Allyson Lucinda |title=Bottom-Up Challenges to National Democracy: Mexico's (Legal) Subnational Authoritarian Enclaves |journal=Comparative Politics |date=2012 |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=253–271 |doi=10.5129/001041512800078931 |jstor=23212796 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23212796 |issn=0010-4159|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Petersen |first1=German |title=Elites and Turnovers in Authoritarian Enclaves: Evidence from Mexico |journal=Latin American Politics and Society |date=2018 |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=23–40 |doi=10.1017/lap.2018.4 |s2cid=158275919 |language=en |issn=1531-426X}}{{cite journal |last1=Curato |first1=Nicole |title=From authoritarian enclave to deliberative space: governance logics in post-disaster reconstruction |journal=Disasters |date=2018 |volume=42 |issue=4 |pages=635–654 |doi=10.1111/disa.12280|pmid=29484700 |bibcode=2018Disas..42..635C }}{{cite journal |last1=Lawson |first1=Chappell |title=Mexico's Unfinished Transition: Democratization and Authoritarian Enclaves in Mexico |journal=Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos |date=2000 |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=267–287 |doi=10.2307/1052198|jstor=1052198 }}{{cite journal |last1=Herrmann |first1=Julián Durazo |title=Reflections on Regime Change and Democracy in Bahia, Brazil |journal=Latin American Research Review |date=2014 |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=23–44 |doi=10.1353/lar.2014.0050 |jstor=43670192 |s2cid=144223560 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43670192 |issn=0023-8791|url-access=subscription }}{{cite book |last1=Gibson |first1=Edward L. |title=Boundary Control: Subnational Authoritarianism in Federal Democracies |date=2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-19223-1 |language=en}} It may be an administrative division of a state or a ministry (such as the military, education or media).{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r7pYCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT102 |pages=102–103 |title=Twenty Years of Studying Democratization; Vol 2: Democratization, Democracy and Authoritarian Continuity |year=2016 |isbn=9781317660873 |publisher=Taylor & Francis}}