Authoritarian and totalitarian regimes

In authoritarian and totalitarian political regimes, one person, entity, or party has complete control over the affairs of the state, without the input or consent of the population. In totalitarian regimes specifically, this leader attempts to control all aspects of a society, including things like the personal beliefs and morals of the population. These are sometimes accompanied by a cult of personality around the leader or leaders, as in the case of Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany. Common forms of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes include military juntas, in which a small committee of military leaders rules the country or a single-party state, in which only one political party is in power and others are either out rightly or tacitly not allowed to challenge that authority. Another form is a dictatorship, in which one person rules the country without being accountable to anyone and then passes his or her powers on to another person upon death.

Authoritarian. Rule by authoritarian governments is identified in societies

where a specific set of people possess the authority of the state in a republic or union. It is a political system controlled by unelected rulers who usually permit some degree of individual freedom.

Totalitarian. Rule by a totalitarian government is characterized by a highly centralized and coercive authority that regulates nearly every aspect of public and private life.

Dynastic Governments. Dynastic systems of government consist of all the leaders of the country coming from one family. Common types of this government include monarchies, emirates, and dynastic empires, like that of Imperial China. In modern times, the leaders of many monarchies and emirates serve primarily as figureheads. This type of government is called a constitutional monarchy or nominal monarchy, and includes countries like the United Kingdom. The opposite of this is an absolute monarchy, in which the ruler has total power to govern the state, and is not subject to control from a constitution or parliament. Examples of modern absolute monarchies include Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Used and recommended literature:

1. Хропанюк В.Н. Теория государства и права. - М.: ИПП. «Отечество», 1993.

2. Теория государства и права. Ч. I/ Под, общ. ред. А.Б. Венгерова.- М.: Юрист, 1995.

3. Матузов Н.И., Малько А.В. Теория государства и права. М.: Юристъ, 2004.

4. H. Kelsen. General theory of law and state. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press, 1949.

5. W. Ebenstein, The Pure Theory of Law. New York, 1969.

Answer the following questions using the information from this text:

1. What is a state?

2. What does the state consist on?

3. What forms of government you know?

4. What is the main character of authoritarian regime?

5. What types of contemporary political regimes you may enumerate?

6. What concept and features of the state you know?

7. Give the examples of forms of government in several states.

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