ISBN: 9781555878900
author:
Juan J. Linz
publishing house:
Lynne Rienner Publishers
publication date: 2000
-2
language:
English
price: GBP 23.95
number of pages: 275
Juan J. Linz
Overview
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."