CHAPTER 16
Authoritarian and Totalitarian Regimes
Ankit Tomar
Reader’s Guide
Classifying political regimes has been a challenging, though important task. Classification helps to understand the political systems in comparative perspective. Based on their similarities, differences, convergences and divergences in terms of their structures and functioning, regimes are categories into democratic, authoritarian, totalitarian and transitioning systems. The trend towards democratisation has been increasing in the period following the Second World War and the Cold War as witnessed in the case of many states with an authoritarian and totalitarian past that have adopted democracy. These new waves of democratisation raise a spate of pertinent questions ...
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