totalitarian democracy

In use for cases of fascism and Stalinism it has also been referred to as totalitarian democracy.

A totalitarian democracy, says Talmon, accepts "exclusive territorial sovereignty" as its right.

In The Devil's Advocate by Taylor Caldwell the totalitarian Democracy of America has conquered Canada and Mexico.

Criticizing Totalitarian Democracy: Herbert Marcuse and Alexis de Tocqueville (Zvi Tauber)

Jacob Talmon identifies as Nazism as promoting a "totalitarian democracy", while W. Martini identifies it as a "hyper-democracy".

The philosophy of totalitarian democracy, according to Talmon, is based on a top-down view of society, which sees an absolute and perfect political truth to which all reasonable humans are driven.

While his earlier novels were set in the past, "Globalia" steps into the future, not exactly as science fiction but as a projection of today's American-dominated world toward what he calls "totalitarian democracy."

According to Talmon, totalitarian democracy sees freedom as something achieved only in the long term, and only through collective effort; the political goal of ultimate order and ultimate harmony brings ultimate freedom.

'The Seed of Watergate' Alan F. Westin, a professor of political science at Columbia, said the result was that the Nixon Administration seemed to operate under a theory of "totalitarian democracy."

Talmon argued that Rousseau's position may best be understood as "totalitarian democracy"; that is, as a philosophy in which liberty is realized "only in the pursuit and attainment of an absolute collective purpose."

Totalitarian democracy - system of government in which lawfully elected representatives maintain the integrity of a nation state whose citizens, while granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of the government.

In 1952 Jacob Talmon characterized Rousseau's "general will" as leading to a Totalitarian Democracy because, Talmon argued, the state subjected its citizens to the supposedly infallible will of the tyranny of the majority.

Rousseau as a theorist of democracy has attracted a great deal of hostile commentary, in particular from writers who see "totalitarian" implications in Du Contrat Social, or even a blueprint for what has been termed "totalitarian democracy".

He posits that totalitarian democracy, or what he terms "equality-oriented democracy," is founded on the idea that it is possible, and necessary, that the complete rights and freedoms of people ought not be held hostage to traditions and social arrangements.

This is in contrast to a totalitarian democracy, with the state as a total institution, where the individual is truly not free without constant participation in their "democratic" government; and thus, the individual in the totalitarian democracy must be "forced to be free" if the totalitarian democracy is not to become a totalitarian oligarchy.