Dictatorship

A dictatorship is a style of government where there is a single person who has total control of governmental decisions. On the other hand, a democracy is a style of government where the people vote on which people are allowed to influence governmental decisions.

Trujillo came to power because he ran into Horacio Vasquez and used him to take power over Dominican Republic as also he claimed to have won 95% of the votes for the election to be president.

Dictatorship takes place in Cuba and Germany

It would be either Totalitarianism or Anarchism.

Before communists took over in Russia, Russia had many world-famous writers and musicians. The control of Communists over all areas of life, including art and philosophy, led many talented Russians to flee their homeland for freedom in the west. Some were forced into exile for their stand against the evils of communism. After the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the secret police of the Cheka and the KGB brought the people under the rule of COMMUNIST DICTATOR NIKOLAI LENIN with the threat of arrest, imprisonment, torture, exile to slave labor camps, or even death.

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That really depends on who is doing the dictating. It depends on what the aspirations of those being dictated to are. Benevolent dictatorship has much to commend it as a style of government. I, being the dictator, tell you the populous what to do for the benefit of us all & you get on with it & tell me how wonderful I am & I reward you by telling you you are all marvellous people. It's all going swimmingly so far..... Vote for me: Jam for tea. (Thats jelly to you US folks) It might just catch on...... lol. I'm thinking the trouble is most Dictators are not quite as nice as I am. And voting for them seems to be not quite what most of them require. Indeed freedom goes out of the window very quickly. The straight answer to the question, historically, is not very well, especially when compared to what most dictators do to reward themselves & their relatives & hangers-on.

If the army installed the dictator as often happens, then they have most of the power.

The republican party is a regime. For they only represent the upper class/the ultra rich. This regime is dividing our democracy - poor/rich. Yet, there are far more poor, but the rich, as history shows, prevail. That old adage, those with the gold rule. But, this recent election showed more people, frustrated voters, voted for republicans. Their votes will hurt them - they have set in motion a dangerous course.

A dictatorship is a form of government in which one person (the dictator) has total executive power and total control over the legislative and judicial branches.

He failed to provide a successor to his throne.

There have been very few fascist governments. All evolved from socialist economic plans by centralized governments. More and more of daily life was forced under central government control. When even sports and diet are government regulated, you have a totalitarian state = fascist. We don't know how long fascist systems can last, since the only nations to try it declared war on the USA and got occupied when they lost.

Communist dictatorships force residents to work for the government, confiscate private property, and insist on government operation of all sectors of the economy. All such efforts have failed miserably.

Mostly they moved in to fill the vacuum created by prolonged suspension of free political activity in a country. Sometimes they high-jacked genuine revolutions as in case of France n Russia. The circumstances and environment coupled with social mayhem breed and encourage these usurpers of power.

Egypt is not currently a monarchy but a Republic. The country has not been a monarchy since the early to mid 1900's.

A 'tyrant' in ancient times meant a lord who was the sole holder of all power, executive and otherwise. He might - if he was so inclined - give his people all kind of rights, like the right to freely travel, to trade, to have and transfer their personal fortunes, to organize themselves in guilds etcetera.

Although the word 'tyrant' today is meant as a negative epithet, often meaning an oppressive ruler, out to suppress his people's freedoms and to fill his prisons with people who disagree with his rule, the original only indicated the scope of his powers - and an ancient tyrant could at the same time be a benevolent ruler.

A Dictatorship is a country, government, or the form of government in which absolute power is exercised by one person. A democracy is basically power to the people. In a dictatorship one person rules all but in a democracy people rule the people.

Because although they were rulers with alsmost unlimited power (hence 'despots') they had been influenced by the ideas of the Engightment and generally used that power for the well-being of their subjects.

Dictatorship can work. For example, the German Empire from 1871 to 1918. The reason it was so short was because of the first world war. Because of Adolf Hitler, a great government was taken down. Another example: Government of Japan, the Japanese have the best economy for many reasons, one of them happens to be dictatorship. If one person has all the power, and he is a good political leader, the country will be thriving through issues. Democracy, does not work, because there are way to many people in that particular government. Dictatorship can be fair and just. You just have to have the right leader.

Since Russia have had regular elections since the fall of the Soviet Union one can NOT call it a dictatorship. On the other hand there is a number of serious shortcomings which raises question about the state of Russian democracy, and still makes Russia's neighbours suspicious. Firstly, there is a lack of a free press as the main media are controlled by Putin supporters and doesn't allow competing parties to argue their case in the time running up to elections. Secondly, Russia needs to have the 'Rule of law' before it can be classified as a working democracy. President Medvedev has been speaking about these and other problems (like widespread corruption) since his election, but it remains to be seen whether any action will be taken or he is just trying to neutralise the opposition by playing 'Good cop / Bad cop' together with Putin.

Pro: Fast decision making (the decision does not need to pass through many layers of parliament)

Pro: Cheaper (no need to pay for elections)

Pro: Fast disaster releif (the dictator can tell people where to live)

Pro: one guy calls the shots

Con: That one guy could be an idiot or worse

to some he was and to others he was a hero