GED Social Studies › Authoritarianism
In a totalitarian government __________
the political authority wields absolute and unchallenged power.
the people elect representatives to a legislative body.
political authority rests in the hands of a theocratic oligarchy.
power is heavily decentralized to a series of local governments.
no one man can ever wield absolute power due to a series of checks and balances on the Executive.
A totalitarian government, also called an autocracy, is defined by an extremely centralized government in which one person, or one group, wields complete and unchallenged control over the rest of the state. Totalitarian governments are increasingly uncommon around the world, but certainly far from nonexistent.