The Qualities of a Dictatorship

In a dictatorship, a ruler or small group with absolute power over the people holds power, often through force. Monarchy is a government in which authority over the people is retained through a trade of allegiance. All parts to this government unit can stand alone and can be taught as individual lessons.

Power in a dictatorship is held by a single person (or a very small group) that wields complete and absolute authority over a government and population. Like some absolute monarchies, dictatorships may be corrupt and seek to limit or even eradicate the liberties of the general population.

• Ruler often rises to power out of conflict.
• Dictators control all branches of government and the media.
• Intimidation, murder, imprisonment, violence and other human rights abuses are used to control the population.
• A cult of personality makes the ruler appear divine.

The government and state will try to control all citizens through laws, police, spying and force. The government and state is the most important thing to a dictatorship. In a dictatorship there is only one party – all opposition is destroyed and banned. Totalitarian states don’t allow opposition or elections.

Totalitarianism is a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens. It is characterized by strong central rule that attempts to control and direct all aspects of individual life through coercion and repression.

Totalitarian regimes are often characterized by extensive political repression, a complete lack of democracy, widespread personality cultism, absolute control over the economy, massive censorship, mass surveillance, limited freedom of movement (most notably freedom to leave the country) and widespread use of state …

1 : centralized control by an autocratic authority. 2 : the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority.

adjective. of or relating to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life. exercising control over the freedom, will, or thought of others; authoritarian; autocratic.

Benito Mussolini

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Totalitarianism is when regimes (political systems) control all public behaviour and as much of private behaviour as they can. No elections are held, or if they are, candidates must be approved by the ruling group. Physical force and/or arrests and detentions are used on people who protest against the regime.