POL SCI 51A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Corporatism, Authoritarianism, Social Control
26 Jun 2017
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Authoritarian leaders need to control societies efficiently, so that they can. State sponsored coercion can exist for all the same reasons state authoritarianism exists. Controlling and monitoring all aspects of people"s lives. The most common defining feature of coercion is that it can include multiple segments of state power, such as religious police. But it can also influence military and business sectors. No leader can rule only through coercion. At least some people have to benefit from the regime. Monitoring every aspect of their own citizens lives, notice the tension in the clip. It is important here to remember the role of ideology as a mechanism of social and political control. Ideology basic definition: a body of doctrine or belief that guides an individual, institution, or class of people. Civil societies become an enemy of the state. Ideology can be used as a form of coercion, in which all aspects of a society conform to.
