Egypt’s dictator for nearly three decades, Hosni Mubarak once said, “My aim was never to seek a force and take power.” Just like most dictators, Hosni Mubarak’s desire was to appeal to the Egyptian citizens, which he did at first. He never intended on obtaining enough power to be considered a dictator. Dictatorship is the ruling of a country with little or no help at all from the government or society. A dictator disregards checks and balances between the branches of governments and seizes most of the power. Another prevalent characteristic of a dictator is that they were once loved by society, but as they got ahold of more and more power, their main priority was to seize complete authority. Hosni Mubarak was a strong leader during his early…
As centuries pass and time continues to lapse, more and more countries are handing in their older systems of government for new ones such as democracy. Some countries, however, continue with the dictatorship model, even though logically, this system is as fallacious as it gets. In Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” and Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, there are plenty of superb examples of dictatorship leading to the downfall of entire communities. Brutus and Caesar from “Julius Caesar” and Napoleon from “Animal Farm” are three great examples of dictatorship causing problems.…
In the past, people have experienced a type of government that centered all its power, authority, policies, rules, and regulations on the mighty and vigor of a dictator. A dictator is a person who solely runs the nation with a single government that rules every land and every freedom of the people as human beings and citizens of the country. During the World Wars, dictators such as Adolf Hitler of Germany, Benito Mussolini of Italy, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union were the center for abolishment and annihilate their totalitarian regimes that have destroyed millions of lives and homes from different parts of the world (“Totalitarian Regimes”). However, despite the destruction of totalitarianism government, there are still totalitarian practices that are evident within the modern government of democracy and independence. Accordingly, this paper will recognize and discuss the origins of totalitarianism in order to compare and contrast some apparent manifestations of modern totalitarianism. Moreover, this paper will also identify some key points of evidences that modern totalitarianism is present in the current structure of democracy especially in the United States.…
The article, ‘The breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes’, in the Journal ‘The Western Political Quarterly’ by Robert H. Dix , gives some keys reasons why authoritarian regimes breakdown and become unstable.…
Dictatorship – a government controlled by one person or a small group of people who make all decisions.…
The problem, of course, is that many peoples currently living under dictatorships might, if asked right now, come up with some deeply unpleasant policy decisions. They might even vote against democracy, saying they don't want it. This is the worry in many countries with an Islamic fundamentalism problem: if they can get a majority the fundamentalists are committed to democracy under the slogan "one man, one vote, just this once". That is not democracy.…
The citizens in North Korea have come to believe that their leader is the top of everything, and their “father” with the ultimate power. This may bring up a lot of political theory, but dictatorship, in its most basic sense, is a leader’s deceiving of his people that everything should be done under his orders. Going back to the stated example, many would believe that the North Korean government’s controlling of its people’s minds is what kept the dictatorship, and the “people’s democracy” clear and stable, but it is actually the country’s strict implementation of its laws and its isolation with other nations and other cultures that did the work. In November of 2013, a rumor, with evidence good enough to reach the front page of a South Korean newspaper, spread that 80 North Koreans were executed in front of the public for several reasons: possession of Christian bibles, distributing pornography and quite shockingly, even watching for watching Korean TV shows and dramas. All these various actions lead to the North Korean’s introduction to the different thoughts and ideologies, especially the idea of capitalism. To stop these from happening, or to keep the deception functioning properly, North Korea had to use the dictator’s authority to hold…
Every Government needs a framework in order for them to efficiently work, regulate, and rule the masses. This framework is known as a Constitution, and it is a set of fundamental principles created according to the desires and needs of those involved in its forging. Now Government power is limited when there is a mutual respect on the restraints on power, a constitution with legal limits on power, individual rights are protected in the constitution, and in all there is a status quo for promoting what is best for everyone. To add to this there is a separation of powers and the power must be shared. However, the polar opposite of a limited government is an unlimited government which includes two types, an Authoritarian and Totalitarian. Within a Totalitarian government, there is one dominant leader supported by a mass party, the media is controlled, there is no opposition allowed, terror is used to maintain power, and individual behavior is controlled. In an Authoritarian government, it is controlled by a single person or a dominant elite, the military shows full support, the government itself is not accountable for its actions, the media can be censored, and the public is not allowed to criticize the government.…
Democracy defines to the government of the people, elected by the people’s votes whereas dictatorship defines to a form of government where power is expressed by one; a dictator. The 1954 novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, involves a group of young boys stranded on a remote island, eventually forming two rival groups, each having a leader with his own view on how to control and lead his group. Lord of the Flies shows that democracy is a more beneficial way of governing than dictatorship,as these are the two different methods the young boys govern themselves without any adult supervision. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, shows democracy in lieu of dictatorship, is the ultimate governing form.…
Currently the world faces the greatest threat mankind has ever seen, a zombie apocalypse. In the streets of cities, states, and countries, people are being savagely butchered as infected people spread the epidemic across the land. Crippling the world with a disaster beyond anything that mankind has dealt with before. Deciding on the best course of action boils down to either forming a republic or totalitarian state. The many voices of a republic leads to inaction due to so many decision makers is too slow and weak in a crisis to effectively deal with this world crisis with its lack of control and direction. Delays and indecision made this catastrophe grow worse when quick action was needed to prevent such needless loss. Immediate action to…
Dictators have complete power and they are not bound by laws. In most cases, dictators eliminate all of their political opponents, including the existing government, usually by violent means. This means that the people did not give the dictator permission to rule the country. Most often, the dictator will not answer to the people and will instead rule with an iron fist. Idi Amin Dada was one of the worst dictators in the twentieth century. In the seventies, Amin overthrew the existing government and declared himself the new president of Uganda. During his reign, Amin launched genocide of tribes within Uganda, exiled Asians, and violently eliminated anyone who spoke out in protest against his regime. He did all of this despite his promise to Ugandans to give power back to the people. Amin had very loyal followers as well. His charisma compelled everyone to do as he said, and he also used fear. As a result, no one dared to protest what Amin was doing. Dictators may say that they plan to give their people more freedom, but they use this excuse to justify the atrocities and violations of human rights that they…
Dictators like Stroessner strive to command and avoid challenges to their rule, not to transform social reality. Bereft of utopian goals requiring a mobilised and penetrated polity, true authoritarians (unlike Stroessner) do not seek mass approbation; they rely on fear rather than involvement and are satisfied with acquiescence or apathy. Ideological commitment to a visionary future informs larger tasks for totalitarians such as Castro. They not only command and manage, but strive to organise consent, to develop a broad consensus and inspire the polity to engage in societal upheaval by state-directed action. A final area of differentiation concerns the ends of non-democratic rule and the corruption of the dictator. Corruption represents a type of privateregarding behaviour exploiting public political authority for essentially private material motivation and advantage.20 As Lord Acton recognised, no absolutist regime can be immune from this type of graft. Regarding the dictator, however, a qualitative difference exists. Power utilised for essentially private ends is endemic in authoritarian dictatorship. Lacking the constraining ideological goals and roles which normatively bind totalitarians, Stroessners, Somozas and Trujillos treat the national patrimony essentially as a huge private domain. Lacking a…
1. Dictators or other totalitarian forms of government have actually been the historically dominating kind of government through most of the human history. You do have some early examples of democracy in early history as well: for instance, you have the government of the early Roman Empire, and Greece of the classical antiquity. However for the most part politics has been a power struggle between already powerful people, or assigned to kings or emperors, which mostly made all the major political decisions themselves. In newer history, and as what happened in Animal Farm, for a dictator to take over there is usually some common factors present in the society. Among these one usually find a society in disorder, weak governments, and dissatisfaction among the people living within the society. One example is Germany in the 1930’s: The country was suffering from the consequences of major inflation due to an economic crisis after they last the First World War; in addition, most people were quite dissatisfied with the present government. They actually felt like no matter what they voted for the government elected never got any of their cases through. As a result of this desperation grew among the people, and when Hitler came with his extreme nationalistic, political party, he was the best answer many of the Germans could see to a strong independent leader, which they needed. Then with his intense speeches, and with some events, as when the parliament building was set on fire, it was easy enough to blame everything on the previous governments, and make them the scapegoat of the society. Then as he was set in power he gradually changed the rules, exactly as Napoleon did, to fit his personal intentions of taking over Europe, while blaming everything on all the non-Aryan races. He ended up making himself the supreme leader, as Napoleon also did, and the case was the same for Stalin, and most other dictators of newer history.…
However, human nature can take a toll by many different obstacles. One such obstacle may be totalitarian governments. Its assault on human nature is unlike any other obstacle. Many dictators are leaders of totalitarian governments. They defy human nature by causing harm to other humans and spreading false knowledge to the innocent.…
First and foremost, we have a democracy. There are a lot of countries that have a dictatorship. There are also five countries that are communists. A dictatorship is where one person can change something if he wants no matter what other people say, communism is where the government controls everything and people do not get to vote. A democracy is where the citizen of that country get to vote for who that want to run that country and what they do with it.…