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'''Autocracy''' is an authoritarian unity and absolutist ideology that believes the supreme political power to direct all the activities of the state should be concentrated in the hands of one person. He has a massive ego, is very narcissistic, and is very cruel to other ideologies.
==Variants==
[[File:LibAutocrat.png]] '''Liberal Autocracy''' (also called [[File:OrganicistLib.png]] '''Liberal Oligarchy''') is the child of [[File:Auto.png]] Autocracy and [[File:Constlib2.png]] [[Constitutionalism|Constitutional Liberalism]]. It typically refers to [[File:AntiDem.png]] non-democratic regimes which follow [[File:Lib.png]] liberal principles, in a similar vein to [[File:Enlightmon.png]] [[Enlightened Absolutism]]. Although differences exist. According to the [[File:Soclib.png]] Brookings Institute, liberal autocracies in the modern day seek to subvert or prevent radical change, rule indirectly through the [[File:Fake_Democracy.png]] [[Illiberal Democracy|"façade of democracy"]], limit freedom of speech or assembly to those who fall inside the Overton window, and elected officials have minimal accountability outside of elections.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120102143310/http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2008/0624_egypt_alanani.aspx "Liberal Autocracy in Egypt"] ''Brookings Institute''</ref> In other words, liberal autocracies in the modern day tend to resemble [[File:IllibDem.png]] [[Illiberal Democracy|illiberal democracies]]. Liberal autocracies tend to have [[File:Consti.png]] constitutional limits on power
An historic example of this was the [[File:Cball-AustriaHungary.png]] Austro-Hungarian Empire.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=iNJqzi7ACjkC The Democracy Reader page 174
==History==
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