Ancient Tyranny and Modern Dictatorship

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Where this source is used

• Márquez argues that the modern idea of dictatorship shifted attention from a ruler's character toward the authority and legitimation of political rule.

  • supports · pp. 68–69, introduction, paragraphs 3–5

• Márquez describes early Roman dictatorship as an office with enlarged powers for a specific emergency, constrained by customary expectations that the holder resign after completing the task.

  • supports · pp. 79–80, section ‘Dictatorship and Sovereignty,’ paragraphs 1–2

• Márquez reports that Giovanni Amendola used totalitarian language in 1923 to criticize Fascist monopolization of power and that Mussolini appropriated the term in 1925.

  • supports · pp. 84–87, section ‘Totalitarianism and Authoritarianism’