Totalitäre Regimes

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

"The development of the term and the analytical concept of totalitarianism have gone through several stages since the 1920s. However, even in its most sophisticated form, the version seen in Friedrich/ Brzezinski, the concept exhibits substantial systematic classification problems and analytical weaknesses. This article attempts to frame the type of totalitarian regime within a general typology of political regimes. Special attention is dedicated to the problem of distinguishing autocratic from democratic rule, and of carving out the systematic difference between authoritarian and totalitarian regimes within the basic type of autocracy. Despite a systematic typology, all grey zones between the basic types cannot be clarified. Therefore, the typology should be complemented by a continuum on which regimes as they exist in reality, can be placed between the polar types of 'ideal democracy' and 'perfect totalitarianism'." (author's abstract)

Object Details

• Alternative title: Totalitarian regimes
• ISSN: 1612-9008
• Extent: Seite(n): 183–201
• Language: Deutsch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Totalitarismus und Demokratie, 1(2)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Staatsformen und Regierungssysteme ; Politikwissenschaft ; Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen ; Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft ; politisches System ; Demokratie ; autoritäres System ; Regime ; Diktatur ; Totalitarismus ; Herrschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Merkel, Wolfgang
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Deutschland
• (when): 2004

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-311968
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST