1 / 7

Authoritarian Totalitarian Regimes

Characteristics of Authoritarian Rule. Concentration of power in the hands of a fewIntolerance of oppositionPress censorshipOutlawing opposition partiesFirm control over the legal systemProsecution

Anita
Download Presentation

Authoritarian Totalitarian Regimes

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

    1. Authoritarian & Totalitarian Regimes Basics

    2. Characteristics of Authoritarian Rule Concentration of power in the hands of a few Intolerance of opposition Press censorship Outlawing opposition parties Firm control over the legal system Prosecution & persecution of political opponents Few avenues for ordinary people to change the system

    3. Main types of authoritarian state Autocracy (dictatorship) Rule by one main person Monarchy Oligarchy Military junta Single-party state

    4. Things to remember about authoritarian states Don’t rely on fear alone Variation in state goals and state-society relations among authoritarian regimes People support them for a variety of reasons

    5. What is a totalitarian state, and how does it differ from an authoritarian regime?

    6. Totalitarian regime Government that aims at total political, social, and economic control Subjugation & attempted transformation of society Extensive use of violence Other characteristics Single party merged with state “Utopia” gone wrong: official vision of social and political reorganization Extensive use of propaganda Extensive use of violence as main policy instrument Attempt to create a monolithic society Atomization of the individual

    7. How do modern authoritarian regimes differ from the old ones?

More Related