section_path: Tactics/Political power in authoritarian regimes
section_name: Political power in authoritarian regimes
paragraph_text: Political power in authoritarian regimes
  
  In authoritarian regimes, political power is concentrated in the hands of a single leader or a small group of leaders who exercise almost complete control over the government and its institutions. Because some authoritarian leaders are not elected by a majority, their main threat is that posed by the masses. They often maintain their power through political control tactics like:
  
  Although several regimes follow these general forms of control, different authoritarian sub-regime types rely on different political control tactics.