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History
Books
Origin and development
Political structure
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Overview
- Form of government
- Absolute monarchies
- Dictatorships
- Democracy
- Civil liberties
- Anocracy
- Hybrid regime
- Electoral autocracy
- Political philosophy
- Ancient history
- Repressing political opponents Political repression
- Co-opting Co-option
- Indoctrination
- Propaganda
- Political ideology
- Birthright
- Unfair elections Unfair election
- Show trials Show trial
- Caudillos
- Empires of Napoleon First French Empire
- Napoleon III Second French Empire
- Totalitarian Totalitarianism
- Fascist Fascism
- Communist Communist state
Etymology and use
Political structure
- Subnational Administrative division
- The state State (polity)
- Free and fair elections Free and fair election
- Corruption
- Independent judiciary
- Civil society
- Royal intermarriage
- Dynastic unions Dynastic union
- Personalist dictatorships Personalist dictatorship
- Cult of personality
- Kim family Kim family (North Korea)
- North Korea
- Taliban
- Afghanistan Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Origin and development
- Chiefdoms Chiefdom
- Anarchy
- Mancur Olson
- Pareto efficiency
- Douglass North
- Barry R. Weingast
- Economic rents
- Social cohesion
- Coup
- Revolutions Revolution
- Hereditary succession
- Legitimacy Legitimacy (political)
- American imperialism
- Zionism
- Absolute monarchy
- Mandate of Heaven
- Divine right of kings
- Communist
- Ethnonationalist
Types
- Monarchies
- Dictatorship
- Totalitarian
- Authoritarian
- Political Pluralism (political philosophy)
- Cultural pluralism
- A single ideological vision Ideocracy
- Revolutionary
- Terror Terror (politics)
- Nazi Germany
- Dominant party
- Theocracies Theocracy
- Despotism
- Sultanism
- Tyranny
- Civil and political rights
- Liberal autocracy
History
- Tribal societies
- Neolithic
- Tribal chief
- Heterarchical
- Hierarchical
- Warlords
- Mesopotamia
- Akkadian Empire
- Sargon of Akkad
- Naram-Sin of Akkad
- Recognized as a god Apotheosis
- Ancient Egypt
- Qin dynasty
- Confucianism
- Ancient Greece
- Etruscan civilization
- Roman Republic
- Roman dictator
- Julius Caesar
- Dictator for life Dictator perpetuo
- Roman Empire
- Post-classical era
- Goguryeo
- Yŏn Kaesomun
- Goryeo military regime
- Shogunate
- Absolutism Absolutism (European history)
- French Revolution
- Bonapartism
- Caesarism
Political activity
Study and evaluation
- East Asia
- Postcommunist
- Democracy indices
- Polity data series
- Freedom in the World
- Varieties of Democracy Democracy indices (V-Dem)
- Enfranchisement Suffrage
- Freedom of expression
- Freedom of information
- Separation of powers
- Juan Linz
- Gordon Tullock
- Public choice theory
- Francis Fukuyama
- End of history
- Liberal democracy
Books
- Stanford University Press
- ISBN ISBN (identifier)
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Finer, Samuel Edward Samuel Finer
- Oxford University Press
- Cambridge University Press
- Coole, Diana H. Diana Coole
- Ferguson, Kennan Kennan Ferguson
- Wiley Blackwell
- Doi Doi (identifier)
- Gibbons et al. (2014) Autocracy
- Golosov, Grigorii V. Grigorii Golosov
- World Scientific
- Gordon, Andrew Andrew Gordon (historian)
- Grzymala-Busse, Anna Anna Grzymala
- Finkel, Eugene Evgeny Finkel
- S2CID S2CID (identifier)
- Lee, Ki-Baik Ki-baik Lee
- Wagner, Edward W. Edward Willett Wagner
- Harvard University Press
- Princeton University Press
- University of Texas Press
- Springer Springer Science+Business Media
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- MacKenzie, John John M. MacKenzie
- John Wiley & Sons
- University of Toronto Press
- University of Hawaii Press
Journals
- Bondarenko, Dmitri M. Dmitri Bondarenko
- ISSN ISSN (identifier)
- International Area Studies Review
- Third World Quarterly
- Gurr, Ted Robert Ted Robert Gurr
- Moore, Will H. Will H. Moore
- Studies in Comparative International Development
- American Political Science Review
- Political Theory Political Theory (journal)
- International Studies Perspectives
- Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
- Public Choice Public Choice (journal)
- Journal of Theoretical Politics
- Journal of Democracy
- European Journal of Political Theory
- Economics of Governance
- Hdl Hdl (identifier)
- JSTOR JSTOR (identifier)
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Autocracy
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autocracy | is a | form of government in which absolute power is held by one person | 0.90 | text |
| the access to resources | instance of | these individuals form a dominant coalition that grants each other privileges | 0.80 | text |
| coups | instance of | They tend to face contestation | 0.80 | text |
| large-scale protests at a smaller rate compared to nonrevolutionary autocracies | instance of | They tend to face contestation | 0.80 | text |
| and have more tools to thwart them when such threats emerge | instance of | They tend to face contestation | 0.80 | text |
| hereditary succession | instance of | monarchies use an established system of succession | 0.80 | text |
| while dictatorships do not | instance of | monarchies use an established system of succession | 0.80 | text |
| China | instance of | but it saw a resurgence over the following decades through regional powers | 0.80 | text |
| Iran | instance of | but it saw a resurgence over the following decades through regional powers | 0.80 | text |
| Russia | instance of | but it saw a resurgence over the following decades through regional powers | 0.80 | text |
| and Saudi Arabia | instance of | but it saw a resurgence over the following decades through regional powers | 0.80 | text |
| the formation of opposition parties to participate in unfair elections | instance of | This may include controlled liberties for citizens | 0.80 | text |
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