Totalitarian and Authoritarian RegimesOriginally 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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Contents
| 49 | |
| 65 | |
| 143 | |
Authoritarian Regimes | 159 |
The Place of the Worlds States in the Typology An Attempt and Its Difficulties | 263 |
Concluding Comments | 267 |
Notes | 273 |
Bibliography | 291 |
Index | 329 |
About the Book | 343 |
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Alfred Stepan analysis army authoritarian regimes authoritarian rule Bracher bureaucratic certainly characteristics characterized citizens commitment communist comparative competitive democracies concept conflict consolidation corporativism corporativist countries created crisis criticism Cuba cultural decisions democ democracy democratic dictatorship distinctive dominant economic elections elements elite emergence emphasis Europe fascist forms formulated function Germany groups Hannah Arendt historical Hitler ideological important institutionalization institutions intellectual interests Italian Fascism lead leaders leadership legitimacy liberal liberal democratic limited pluralism Linz Marxist mass ment military mobilization modern movement Nazi Nazism nondemocratic regimes NSDAP oligarchies organizations participation particularly percent perspective phase policies political systems polyarchies population populist post-totalitarian pretotalitarian revolution revolutionary role rulers sectors single party social society Soviet Union stability Stalin Stalinist statism Stepan strata structure sultanistic tarian tendencies term terror tion tional totalitar totalitarian parties totalitarian systems traditional transition typology ultimately variety
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Page 80 - Union (Bolsheviks), which is the vanguard of the working people in their struggle to strengthen and develop the socialist system and is the leading core of all organizations of the working people, both public and state.
Page 66 - Totalitarianism is a system in which technologically advanced instruments of political power are wielded without restraint by centralized leadership of an elite movement for the purpose of effecting a total social revolution, including the conditioning of man, on the basis of certain arbitrary ideological assumptions proclaimed by the leadership, in an atmosphere of coerced unanimity of the entire population.
Page 280 - The event itself appears in his work like a bolt from the blue. He sees in it only the violent act of a single individual. He does not notice that he makes this individual great instead of little by ascribing to him a personal power of initiative such as would be without parallel in world history.
Page 159 - Authoritarian regimes are political systems with limited, not responsible, political pluralism: without elaborate and guiding ideology (but with distinctive mentalities); without intensive nor extensive political mobilization (except some points in their development); and in which a leader (or occasionally a small group) exercises power within formally ill-defined limits but actually quite predictable ones.
Page 248 - ... community of disciples or a band of followers or a party organization or any sort of political or hierocratic organization, it is necessary for the character of charismatic authority to become radically changed. Indeed, in its pure form charismatic authority may be said to exist only in the process of originating. It cannot remain stable, but becomes either traditionalized or rationalized, or a combination of both.
Page 65 - They are ... (1) a totalist ideology; (2) a single party committed to this ideology and usually led by one man, the dictator; (3) a fully developed secret police; and three kinds of monopoly or, more precisely, monopolistic control: namely that of (a) mass communications; (b) operational weapons; (c) all organizations, including economic ones, thus involving a centrally-planned economy. 4 1 Leonard Schapiro. Totalitarianism (London: Pall Mall Press, 1972) , p. 13. * Benjamin R. Barber, "Conceptual...
Page 52 - ... at first glance, but in reality inevitable, that the crushing of Soviet democracy by an all-powerful bureaucracy and the extermination of bourgeois democracy by fascism were produced by one and the same cause: the dilatoriness of the world proletariat in solving the problems set for it by history. Stalinism and fascism, in spite of a deep difference in social foundations, are symmetrical phenomena. In many of their features they show a deadly similarity.
Page 248 - The following are the principal motives underlying this transformation: (a) The ideal and also the material interests of the followers in the continuation and the continual reactivation of the community, (b) the still stronger ideal and also stronger material interests of the members of the administrative staff, the disciples or other followers of the charismatic leader in continuing their relationship.
Page 100 - The claim of the modern state to monopolize the use of force is as essential to it as its character of compulsory jurisdiction and of continuous operation.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes |
| Author | Juan José Linz |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000 |
| ISBN | 1555878903, 9781555878900 |
| Length | 343 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy |
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