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Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes

Originally a chapter in the "Handbook of Political Science", this analysis develops the fundamental distinction between totalitarian and authoritarian systems. It emphasizes the personalistic, lawless, non-ideological type of authoritarian rule the author calls the "sultanistic regime."

Print Book, English, 2000
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, CO, 2000