Answer:
- leaders often seize power by illegitimate means
- a single leader or a very powerful group rules
- leaders refuse to tolerate dissenting views
Explanation:
The authoritarian governments are the governments that have absolute control in the country, controlling everything and not having any body of authority above them to stop them. The leaders of this type usually tend to come in power by illegal means, be it creating a coup, using violence, military power. The single leader, or a very small number of very powerful people rule the country. They have certain goals and ideologies and do not tolerate anyone that opposes them. The people that oppose them, be it privately, or publicly, very often are eliminated or sent to prisons, thus removed from the society so that they do not have any effect on the public opinion. Nice example of this kind of rule were Stalin, Pohl Pot, Castro, Mao Zedong, Tito, and in more recent times Kim Jong Un, Lukashenko, Berdimuhamedow, Karimov.
