Internal reasons why Authoritarian Regimes may become unstable and breakdown To understand which form of regimes are the most stable its important to look at certain factors that can destabilise the authoritarian regimes. 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. The first and most intuitive reason for regime breakdown is simply a lack
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A totalitarian society refers to a political system in which everything is in the hands of the state. All control of public and private life are government run. Books and movies show a totalitarian society. Real life even shows it. For example‚ Nazis and Soviets caused a real-life totalitarian society. In 1948‚ George Orwell forewarned his readers of the effects of a totalitarian society. Romance is obsolete in a totalitarian society. It only exists if the government allows it. Today‚ love is built
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2.2 Authoritarian Teacher The preceding section has depicted the figure of “authoritative teacher” as a de jure and de facto authority within the teacher-centred approach. It is now turning to a discussion of the “authoritarian teacher”. The word “authority” has negative connotations with “conformism” and “unquestioning obedience” (Wilson‚ 1977)‚ leading to the unpleasant impression of teachers as authoritarians. Teacher-centred scheme in essence attempts to cultivate a student attitude of “docility
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Our government has not always been as successful as it is today. America’s government began with the Articles of Confederation and separate state constitutions. This was difficult. The country was not united. Each state took care of everything on their own and the national government could not do anything. Our country had no national money or militia. Traveling was almost impossible. There were very few positive concepts with the Articles of Confederation. Our present government is a federalism.
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Soon after the conclusion of World War II in 1945‚ Communism posed a threat in the United States. This threat‚ also known as the Red Scare‚ was triggered because of the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. The tension between the two superpowers led to the beginning of the Cold War in the late 1940s. Because the Soviets were a communistic country‚ many Americans feared Communism because of the influence that it had in America. Many intellectuals supported Communism in the U
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The slave laborers were exhausted. They lived in camps infested with disease. The Nazis used gas tanks to murder the weak. There are many similarities as well as differences between The Holocaust and The Crucible. The Holocaust can be compared to The Crucible for a number of reasons. In the beginning of the Crucible‚ a scene told the audience how a teenaged girl‚ Abigail‚ helped her employer‚ John Proctor‚ commit adultery. She knew she had grudges toward some people‚ including her mistress‚ because
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Democratic Government VS Oligarchy Government “The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong‚ and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders‚ not originate them.” Mark Twain Democracy and Oligarcy as forms of government have been in existence for a long period of time‚ both terms first appeared in ancient Greek political and philosophical thought. Both forms
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and can still fall into the mould of a totalitarian state.” Although my views were slightly altered during the research process; I found that my hypothetical statement was just as relevant towards the end of the task as at the beginning. While some‚ upon reading this will likely brand me as a conspiracy theorist; I believe that it is incredibly naïve to dismiss the notion that Australia (or any other Western nation for that matter) could become totalitarian. In the mid to late stages of my research
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The Similarities Between 1984 and the USSR The book 1984 was written by George Orwell in 1949. This was during the time of the Cold War‚ when tensions were high between the United States the Soviet Union‚ and that served as the inspiration for the book because many of the situations in the book were common in the USSR (Hitchens XI). The book was set in England‚ but the name of the country is changed to Oceania in the book‚ in order to show that the threat of totalitarian danger is possible everywhere
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How did Mussolini turn Italy into a totalitarian State? Benito Mussolini was born in 1883‚ and was Italy’s Fascist leader until his death in 1943. He was the son of a socialist blacksmith so he grew up with strong left-wing beliefs. Like his father‚ Benito too joined the Italian Socialist Party. After a brief period as a teacher‚ Mussolini began to concentrate on journalism and became the editor of “Avanti”‚ the paper of the Socialist Party. In 1912‚ with the outbreak of the war‚ Mussolini
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