Book 2000

Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes

6 readers

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Language: English
Published: 2000

Political science & theory
Sociology, Social Studies
Politics - Current Events
Individual And The State
Political Doctrines
Political Science
General
Political Ideologies - Democracy

Originally a chapter in the "Handbook of Political Science", this analysis develops the fundamental destinction between totalitarian and authoritarian systems. It emphasizes the personalistic, lawless, non-ideological type of authoritarian rule the author calls the "sultanistic regime."