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Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes

By Juan J. Linz

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."

Published

September 2000

Format

Paperback

Pages

343

Language

English

ISBN

9781555878900