Autocratic

Examples of Autocratic in the following topics:

• Forms of Government

  • Governments with autocratic attributes are ruled by one person who has all the power over the people in a country.
  • In modern times, an Autocrat's rule is not stopped by any rules of law, constitutions, or other social and political institutions.
  • After World War II, many governments in Latin America, Asia, and Africa were ruled by autocratic governments.

• Non-Democratic Governments: Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, and Dictatorship

  • Authoritarianism is marked by "indefinite political tenure" of an autocratic state or a ruling-party state.
  • A dictatorship is defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual: a dictator.
  • In contemporary usage, dictatorship refers to an autocratic form of absolute rule by leadership unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state.

• Non-Democratic Governments: Monarchy, Oligarchy, Technocracy, and Theocracy

  • Monarchs may be autocrats (absolute monarchy) or ceremonial heads of state who exercise little or no power or only reserve power, with actual authority vested in a parliament or other body such as a constitutional assembly .

• Foreign Policy

  • Terrorism, conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the nuclear weapons programs of Iran and North Korea, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and instability and challenges to autocratic rulers in the Middle East are only the most obvious of the foreign policy issues that affect the United States.