Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781555878900
Subjects: Political science & theory; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship; Sociology, Social Studies; Totalitarianism; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; General; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Authoritarianism
Description: 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."