• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago
    • Limited political pluralism, realized with constraints on the legislature, political parties and interest groups.
    • Political legitimacy based upon appeals to emotion and identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat “easily recognizable societal problems, such as underdevelopment or insurgency”.
    • Minimal political mobilization, and suppression of anti-regime activities.
    • Ill-defined executive powers, often vague and shifting, which extends the power of the executive.

    He wrote this in the 1960’s, mainly in reference to Spanish Fascism but not exclusively.