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Totalitarian and Authoritarian RegimesTotalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes

Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes2000

Juan J. Linz

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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."

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First published
2000
OL Work ID
OL2970072W

Subjects

TotalitarianismAuthoritarianismTotalitarismeAutoritarisme

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