Authoritarian

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Authoritarian Totalitarian Regimes

• Basics

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Characteristics of Authoritarian Rule

• Concentration of power in the hands of a few
• Intolerance of opposition
• Press censorship
• Outlawing opposition parties
• Firm control over the legal system
• Prosecution persecution of political opponents
• Few avenues for ordinary people to change the
  system

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Main types of authoritarian state

• Autocracy (dictatorship)
• Rule by one main person
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Military junta
• Single-party state

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Things to remember about authoritarian states

• Dont rely on fear alone
• Variation in state goals and state-society
  relations among authoritarian regimes
• People support them for a variety of reasons

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What is a totalitarian state, and how does it
differ from an authoritarian regime?
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Totalitarian regime

• Government that aims at total political, social,
  and economic control
• Subjugation attempted transformation of society
  
• Extensive use of violence
• Other characteristics
• Single party merged with state
• Utopia gone wrong official vision of social
  and political reorganization
• Extensive use of propaganda
• Extensive use of violence as main policy
  instrument
• Attempt to create a monolithic society
• Atomization of the individual

For modern society, a colossus with feet of
clay, we shall create an unprecedented
centralization which will unite all powers in the
hands of the government. We shall create a
hierarchical constitution, which will
mechanically govern all movements of
individuals. Point 25 of the program of the
German Workers Party (predecessor to the Nazi
Party, 1920)
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How do modern authoritarian regimes differ from
the old ones?