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Autocratic Government Flashcards

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What is Autocracy?

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  • An arbitrary system of government unconstrained by the rule of law and the consent of the governed
  • Literally means “self-rule”
  • Despotism - one who rule through fear without regard to law
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What are the common characteristics of Autocracy?

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  • Rule is arbitrary and not bound by law
  • Rule is exercise in the interest of the rules and not the common interest
  • Rule is based on coercion and fear
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What is Authoritarianism?

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A system of government in which leaders are not subjected to the test of free elections

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What are the types of Authoritarianism?

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  • Civilian
  • Military
  • Secular
  • Religious
  • Capitalist
  • Socialist
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What is Right-Wing Authoritarianism?

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  • Limited political pluralism
    • Not a classless society or master race
    • Social Organisations play an important role - distract public from fact of authorisatnism
  • No guiding ideology
    • No ideas of utopian order
    • Economy - state, but liberal
  • No extensive political mobilisation
    • No great need to mobilise society (no free elections)
    • Large numbers of people nurture instability
  • Leaders who exercise power within ill-defined but predictable limits
  • Want to “protect” society
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What is Statism?

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  • RWT opposed to communism - but unwilling to leave economic development completely to the private sector for fear of democracy breaking out
  • Not state-ownership, but the state as a driver (wage and price controls, exchange rates, imports…)
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What is Left Wing Authoritarianism?

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  • Official ideology
  • Strong element of nationalism
  • Remake society
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What is Totalitarianism?

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  • A modern form of despotic rule the state undertakes to remake society according to ideological design
  • “Everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state” - the strong wing of nationalism
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What are examples of Totalitarian regimes?

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  • Nazi Germany
  • USSR
  • Old PRC
  • Fascist Italy
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What are the characteristics of Totalitarianism?

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  • Attempt to remake society
    • Produce a condition of utopian perfection (race)
  • One-party state
    • Part in all aspects of life: schools, churches
  • All powerful leader
    • Charismatic leader (Castro, Ghdaffi)
  • Pseudo-Democracy
    • Political participation encouraged by state
  • Control of Communications
    • All media owned and controlled by the state
  • Use of Terror
    • Political police, Gestapo, Soviety
  • Subordination of the law to the State
    • No rule of law
  • Planned economy
    • Public ownership or state supervision
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What is the difference between Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism in regards to Charisma?

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  • Authoritarianism
    • Low
  • Totalitarianism
    • High
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What is the difference between Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism in regards to role conception?

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  • Authoritarianism
    • Leader as individual
  • Totalitarianism
    • Leader as destiny
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What is the difference between Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism in regards to economy?

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  • Authoritarianism
    • Private
  • Totalitarianism
    • State
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What is the difference between Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism in regards to corruption?

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  • Authoritarianism
    • High
  • Totalitarianism
    • Low
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What is the difference between Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism in regards to official ideology?

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  • Authoritarianism
    • No
  • Totalitarianism
    • Yes
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What is the difference between Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism in regards to limited pluralism?

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  • Authoritarianism
    • Yes
  • Totalitarianism
    • No
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What is the difference between Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism in regards to legitimacy?

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  • Authoritarianism
    • No
  • Totalitarianism
    • Yes
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Why do dictators tend to fall?

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Dictatorships tend to fall as a consequence of their failures, including military defeats, economic crises or the death of the dictator

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What, essentially, are civil wars and revolutions?

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  • Violent ways of regime change
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Where are civil wars and revolutions more likely?

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  • large countries
  • with available natural resources
  • low per capita income
  • state weakness
  • semi-democratic regimes
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What is democratisation?

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  • Broadening suffrage right within an existing institutional setting:
  • Increasing inclusiveness,
  • limited political competition
  • Negotiations between authoritarian rulers and the opposition

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