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." |
Contents
Introduction | 49 |
Totalitarian Systems | 65 |
Traditional Authority and Personal Rulership | 143 |
Authoritarian Regimes | 159 |
The Place of the Worlds States in the Typology An Attempt and Its Difficulties | 263 |
Concluding Comments | 267 |
Notes | 273 |
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