POG 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Corporatism, Glasnost, Economic Planning
1 May 2016
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Non-democratic regimes: these are political regimes controlled by small number of people who exercise power over the state and are not constitutionally responsible to the people. (participation, competition, liberty) Totalitarianism: a highly centralized non-democratic rule that uses a well-defined ideology to transform and fuse the institutions of state, society, and the economy. Authoritarianism: a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms. It is a political ideology that seeks to create human equality by eliminating private property and market forces. A socioeconomic structure and political ideology that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless society based on common ownership and the control of means of production and property in general. It is an attempt to offer alternative to problems associated with capitalist market economy and imperialism. Communism is founded on the philosophies of karl marx (1818-1883) a german philosopher.
