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Non-democratic regimes were and still take an important portion of the attention given by world's political scientists. Non-Democratic Regimes, theory, government and politics is a book written by Paul Brooker, who is a senior lecturer in comparative politics, that aims to provide a wide ranging basis for comparison between non-democratic regimes and democratic ones as well as a thematic analysis of past, present and future non-democratic regimes. The author tackles not only previous theories and analyses adopted by these regimes such as Totalitarianism and Authoritarianism but also focus on modern form of non-democratic regimes mainly dictatorship by one political party or the military. Paul Brooker began his book by two chapter introducing and examining theories of totalitarian and authoritarian forms of modern non-democratic government. Following chapters discuss the join of the army and the party to form a dictatorship and how often they degenerate into a personalist dictatorship. A chapter on government policies and performances compares and contrasts decision-making processes in different non-democratic regimes. The failure of dictatorships is covered after that in a chapter that focuses on the 1970's till 90's wave of democratization while the following chapter tackles semi-democracy and semi-dictatorship. Finally, the author looked at the failure and extinction of dictatorship in the world. This book report will look into each concept and inspect chapters' contents in a summarized way.

Theories of Non-Democratic Government
Totalitarianism, authoritarianism and Fascism are theories that are widely recognized. This chapter introduces them deeply in order to persuade the reader and make sure in later chapters that the author and the reader are in pace when the notions of these theories.
This chapter defines totalitarianism as: the term authoritarianism emerged in the 1920's_30's as part of the Fascist ideology in Italy. Mussolini described the Fascist...