Dictatorship | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-01-09

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship


00:01:22 1 Etymology
00:01:53 2 Types of dictatorships
00:05:18 2.1 Military dictatorships
00:06:01 2.2 Single-party dictatorships
00:07:02 2.3 Personalist dictatorships
00:07:58 2.4 Monarchies
00:08:43 2.5 Hybrid dictatorships
00:09:18 3 Measuring dictatorships
00:10:12 4 History
00:10:50 4.1 Republican origins
00:11:51 4.2 19th-century Latin American caudillos
00:12:59 4.3 Communism and Fascism in 20th-century dictatorships
00:14:00 4.4 Dictatorships in Africa and Asia after World War II
00:15:16 4.5 Democratization
00:16:36 5 Theories of dictatorship



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A dictatorship is an authoritarian form of government, characterized by a single leader or group of leaders with either no party or a weak party, little mass mobilization, and limited political pluralism. According to other definitions, democracies are regimes in which "those who govern are selected through contested elections"; therefore dictatorships are "not democracies". With the advent of the 19th and 20th centuries, dictatorships and constitutional democracies emerged as the world's two major forms of government, gradually eliminating monarchies, one of the traditional widespread forms of government of the time. Typically, in a dictatorial regime, the leader of the country is identified with the title of dictator, although their formal title may more closely resemble something similar to "leader". A common aspect that characterized dictators is taking  advantage of their strong personality, usually by suppressing freedom of thought and speech of the masses, in order to maintain political and social supremacy and stability. Dictatorship and totalitarian societies generally employ political propaganda to decrease the influence of proponents of alternative governing systems.