Dictatorship and Democracy

September 6, 2008

The Penguin Encyclopedia says dictatorship

as Government by absolute authority;the term may correctly be used to describe rule by a group or class but is generally confined to circumstances in which absolute power is wielded by a single person,under the form of a republic.Also, authority similarly wielded by any coporate body or community.

There are three types of dictatorships namely (1)totalitarian dictatorship,(2)military dictatorship and (3)autocratic dictatorship. Communist and socialist nations use to practise the totalitarian dictatorship.Military dictatorship is practised by junta(group of army officers who have seized power by a coup d`etat).A person fully controls the whole regime is known as autocratic dictatorship.

The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines democracy as (1)government by the people;especially:rule of the majority,(2)a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.

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