POL SCI 51A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Kim Jong-Un, History Of Libya Under Muammar Gaddafi, Totalitarianism
26 Jun 2017
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This chapter is about authoritarian political systems, where the government are. There is substantial variation in kinds of authoritarian systems. Most authoritarian leaders are still constrained by political institutions. For today: varieties of social control: authoritarianism versus totalitarianism, origins: why do some countries end up authoritarian or totalitarian. Non democracy: state leaders are not accountable to the public through free and fair elections. A political system in which power is concentrated and the rulers of the state aren"t accountable to the public. An authoritarian system in which state leaders also seek to control every aspect of society . In china, there are two organizational charts worth contemplating - the one for the state and the one for the communist party. The state is governed, in principle, by the npc, which is in turn elected by local congresses. The npc, which has 2, 987 members, then elects the standing committee, which elects the state council, which elects the president.
