Autocratic Government

Autocratic Government

By: Krisna Mendoza

    Autocratic government has its own fragilities. On this chapter we look at two aspects. Look at some mayor forms of autocratic government and explore the sources of their fragility and success. What is autocracy? the autocratic alternatives to democracy are by no means of one piece.

     The union of soviet socialist republic decisions were made collectively within the party, with strong leadership by the party head and great deal of influence from such groups or army. Pakistan has a history of sporadic, brief democratic rule punctuated by military takeovers has not been good for the country. Saudi Arabia was an absolute monarchy for most of the twentieth century , with power lodge in the Saud family. Democratic republic of Congo became independent from Belgium. These are examples of autocratic systems. First they are varied politically and second many autocracies are not organized stably.

Military government the military in any state control more armed power than anyone else. If they choose, as group, to oust the exiting government there is no one who can stop them. Civilian governments must depend for their reluctance to take over the government. All three would from time to time fail and that the military would break out in a coup.

A military government takes power through no regular process but simply seized it, so how can it claimed that no other group should be similar. A democratic government is legitimized by the rules of succession on which is based; a communist government is legitimized by Lenin's theory. Another problem of most military governments is that while their leaders may be skilled politically, there is little in the profession for which they have been trained that makes this likely. As the result of the problem, purely military governments are actually rather fragile.

    One party states, most autocracies are not straight military government but one party state. The one party state is distinguished by the fact that the government is based on and supports a political party that is the only party allowed in the state. One party arrangement have often had their origins in military coups. What distinguished these states from other autocratic system, especially from straight forward military governments, is the existence of a reasonably large national political party that bolters the government,  is the existence of a reasonably large national political party. A national party is likely to embrace at least a reasonable range of the social groups in a state.

     Court politics a characteristic of many autocratic especially of monarchies and of personal dictatorship like that which the Duvalier family exercised in Haiti from 1957 to 1986, but also of many military governments and one party states. Some examples would be the power held by Hitler in Nazi Germany, Stroessner in Paraguay, Duvalier in Haiti and Khomeini in Iran. Court politics is usually marked by: less emphasized on the rule of the law and more arbitrary whim of the ruler, politic is based on competing force and heavy competition by other figures for access to the leader.

      The One party governments often see themselves as pursuing communal objectives and develop organizational mechanisms for bringing a wide spectrum of opinion to bear on the governments decisions. The autocratic alternative is quite a diverse thing and not necessarily stable.  A number of autocratic states have set up institutions of politics, especially through a single party governments. Court politics a characteristic of many autocratic especially of monarchies and of personal dictatorship. Most autocracies are not straight military government but one party state.