Bonapartism

/ ˈbəʊnəpɑːˌtɪzəm /

noun

a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
(esp in France) support for the government or dynasty of Napoleon Bonaparte

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His volume on Bonapartism was a study of the chief political opponent of Prussian supremacy.

They had talked quite freely before him, consulted with him when local Bonapartism appeared uncomfortably rampant.

The Radicals, always upon the scent of Bonapartism, have made much ado about the presence of that personage.

It was thought expedient to strike Bonapartism heavily, in the very place where it had first exploded.

In this way, not democracy, but Bonapartism, appears in Marx's eyes as the final form of bourgeois power.

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