Autocracy is a type of dictatorship in which a power is held by a single leader. The leader with absolute power has decisions that are subject to neither external legal restraints or regularixed mechanism of popular control. Absolute monarchy and dictatorship are among the types of autocracy and called modern autocracy.
B. Autocracy Defined as a system of government by one person with absolute power. A country, state, or society governed by one person with absolute power; domineering rule or control.