Yes. Authoritarian power sometimes builds professional administration, invests in infrastructure, health care or education in the long run and ensures rapid economic growth. The absence of political competition can make it easier to implement a long plan, but at the same time removes important ways to detect and correct the mistake early.

That is why the results are very different: some authorities have been growing for decades, while others have been producing corruption, wrong big investments and sudden crises, the price of which citizens cannot politically charge. Good service or growth is not proof that the government has the right to unlimited power, just as a bad result is not the only sign of authoritarianism. The economic performance, the distribution of benefits, the reliability of data and the ability of citizens to seek accountability when the policy fails should be measured separately.