Title: Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes
First published: July 2000
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."
Subjects: Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, Totalitarisme, Autoritarisme