This textbook provides a systematic comprehensive and historically embedded introduction to
the formation functioning and development conditions of today's non-democratic regimes. It
disseminates the results of international autocracy research familiarises readers with its
concepts and methods provides information about the most important types of autocracy and
illuminates the conditions for their stability. System transformations are also examined from
the perspective of autocratic regimes. The book integrates approaches findings and
perspectives from different research traditions and aims to encourage an interdisciplinary
view. The author works at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the
University of Dresden.
