What is an autocratic goverment?

An autocratic government is a type of government in which the supreme power is in the hand of one person i.e. “The Autocrat” who says,“My way or the highway”.The individual has control over all decisions and little input from group members. read more

An autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection). read more

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