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Absolute monarchies and dictatorships are the main modern-day forms of autocracy. 1.000

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Simplified: Absolute monarchies and dictatorships are main modern-day forms of autocracy

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An autocracy is a system of government in which a single person or party (the autocrat) possesses supreme and absolute power. 1.000

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Simplified: Autocracy is a system of government where a single person or party possesses supreme power

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has gone from being a model of democratic political Islam to a traditional autocrat. 0.900

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Simplified: Recep Tayyip Erdogan has gone from model of democratic political Islam to traditional autocrat

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Throughout history, during times of political unrest, people have tended to accept the command of strong leaders who could take control of their countries. 1.000

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Simplified: Historically during political unrest people accept strong leaders who take control.

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In fact, Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian political philosopher from the 15th century, recommended autocracy as a temporary measure and as a means of restoring political order and ending dissent. 1.000

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Simplified: Niccolo Machiavelli recommended autocracy as a temporary measure to restore order and end dissent.

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Dictators, especially military dictators, acquire their power by force. 1.000

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Simplified: Dictators especially military dictators acquire power by force.

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Then, the dictator assumes control with the goal of establishing a new order. 1.000

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Simplified: Dictators assume control to establish a new order.

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Most commonly, dictators gain power as a result of revolution—typically, when a group of rebels rise up in protest and overthrow the existing government. 1.000

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Simplified: Dictators commonly gain power through revolution overthrowing the existing government.

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Dictators are absolute rulers who acquire their power rather than inherit it. 1.000

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Simplified: Dictators are absolute rulers who acquire power not inherit it.

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Their royal lineage can be traced back to ancient times when their royal ancestors ruled by divine right—as it was widely believed that they descended from the gods. 1.000

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Simplified: Royal lineage traces back to ancestors who ruled by divine right.

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Today’s kings and queens, as in ancient times, often rule by right of succession. 1.000

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Simplified: Modern kings and queens often rule by right of succession like in ancient times.

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Though autocratic rulers have complete power over the people of their countries, their methods of governing can be vastly different. 1.000

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Simplified: Autocratic rulers have complete power but their governing methods vary.

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Autocracy is a general concept rather than a specific form of government. 1.000

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Simplified: Autocracy is a general concept not a specific form of government.

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For this reason, scholars have often linked autocracy with totalitarian regimes, such as that of Adolf Hitler in Germany and Josef Stalin in the Soviet Union. 1.000

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Simplified: Scholars link autocracy with totalitarian regimes like Adolf Hitler's Germany and Josef Stalin's Soviet Union.

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An autocratic ruler is accountable to no one; there is no system of checks and balances, no constitutional limit on the ruler’s power, and the ruler is not held accountable by a cabinet of advisors, a... 1.000

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Simplified: An autocratic ruler is accountable to no one with no checks balances or constitutional limits.

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In autocratic governments, the power of the ruler is absolute; dissent is not tolerated. 1.000

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Simplified: In autocratic governments the ruler's power is absolute dissent is not tolerated.

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Unlike in a democracy, the people living in countries with autocratic governments have no say in determining the nation’s laws, or in how those laws are enforced. 1.000

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Simplified: People in autocratic countries have no say in determining or enforcing laws unlike in a democracy.

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An autocracy is a form of government in which one ruler has absolute control and decision-making power in all matters of state and over all the country’s people. 1.000

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Simplified: Autocracy is a government where one ruler has absolute control and decision-making power.

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Autocracies have existed since ancient times, when kings and emperors ruled over great countries and tribal lands, and they exist today in the form of absolute monarchies and dictatorships. 1.000

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Simplified: Autocracies have existed since ancient times and exist today as absolute monarchies and dictatorships.

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“The current administration’s cuts will do enormous damage to that institutionalization and that movement, and can absolutely be expected to cost lives,” he said. 0.700

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Simplified: David Kennedy says administration's cuts will do enormous damage cost lives.

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