Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes

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."

• Author
• Juan J. Linz

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 275

• Publisher
• Lynne Rienner Publishers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781555878900

• Genres
• politics, history

• Release date
• 2000