Coercion Is Used in Both Authoritarian and Totalitarian Regimes

question 42

Multiple Choice

Coercion is used in both authoritarian and totalitarian regimes.What is the key difference between the use of force in the two types of regimes?

• A) Force in totalitarian regimes is physically violent, while economic force is employed in authoritarian regimes.
• B) Force in authoritarian regimes is physically violent, while economic force is employed in totalitarian regimes.
• C) Violence is aimed at political opponents in an authoritarian regime, while even citizens who are politically neutral are victims in totalitarian regimes.
• D) Violence is restrained in totalitarian regimes, while it is unleashed with full military force in authoritarian regimes.

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