What are the characteristics of authoritarian regimes.

Characteristics of authoritarian regimes: In the authoritarian regimes the techniques of decision by public discussion and voting are largely or wholly supplanted by the decision of those in authority.

i.The authoritarian regimes exercise sufficient power to dispense with any constitutional limitations.

ii. Those in power in an authoritarian regime claim to derive their authority not necessarily and always from the consent of the governed but from some special quality that they claim to possess. 

iii. Based on force, authoritarian regimes are likely to use violence against the citizens who do not receive any importance in the governance.

Power is controlled, change of government or even of leaders, is not smooth and peaceful under authoritarian regimes.

Such changes take place either by means of coup d’etat or as a result of revolutions. Coup has been a normal feature as far as the authoritarian regimes in Africa are concerned.

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