Transcript Authoritarian Governments

Authoritarian
Governments
Types of Government are based on one question:
Who governs and what is the citizen participation?
•There are two types of governments:
•Democracy
•Authoritarian
Authoritarianism/ Autocracy
• This is a government in which one person or a group of people
holds absolute power.
• Power is gained through military force or inherited.
• Takes several forms
#1 Absolute Monarch
• Has a king, queen, emperor, empress
• Gain power through inheritance
• Have absolute power to rule as they see fit.
• Most governments were absolute monarchs until 1600s.
#2 Theocracy
• Government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by
officials who are regarded as divinely guided
• Follow strict set of laws set by religion
• Leaders usually part of a clergy
• Occurred in early civilizations
#3 Oligarchy
• Rule of the few, usually the rich, powerful, and privileged
• Usually called aristocrats, oligarchs or nobles
• Was not a common form of government
• Occurred mostly in Ancient Greece
#4 Dictatorship
• A form of government were one person has absolute power.
• Use force or fraud to gain political control
• Use intimidation, terror, and suppression of civil liberties
• Mass propaganda
#5 Totalitarianism
• a state that regulates nearly every aspect of public and private
behavior of the people.
• Usually related with dictatorships
• Deals with the scope of which government regulates peoples lives.
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