Dictators and dictatorships: understanding authoritarian regimes and their leaders
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We should note that in this study we use the terms, authoritarian regime, non-democracy, autocracy, and dictatorship interchangeably, unless indicated otherwise.
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authoritarian regimes are political systems with limited, not responsible political pluralism, without intensive nor extensive political mobilization, and in which a leader or a small group exercises power within formally ill-defined limits but actually quite predictable ones
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limited political pluralism
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Non-democracies are “for the elite and the privileged;”4 decisions are made either by a single individual, the elite, a junta, or an oligarchy.
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defines totalitarian regimes as rule by a single party led by an individual with a powerful secret police and a highly developed ideology