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FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE AND POLICY STUDIES

PAD120: INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE

QUESTION
Compare authoritarian and absolute monarchy. Provide relevant examples.

PREPARED BY:
NAME STUDENT ID GROUP
RADIN MOHAMAD NOOR BUDIMAN 2022966467 AM1102A
BOLKIAH BIN RADIN NARAWIE
MOHD DZA’IM DZULHELMI BIN ROSLI 2022168545 AM1102A
JOSHUA NOEL ANAK ANDREW 2022136335 AM1102A
MAHDI MUZHAFAR BIN YATIM MUSTAPHA 2022313861 AM1102A
MOHD MUQZAIIM BIN MOHAMAD RAHIZUL 2022139545 AM1102A
HISYAM

SEMESTER: OCT 2022 – FEB 2023

PREPARED FOR:
MADAM CHAI SHIN YI

DATE OF SUBMISSION:
23 DECEMBER 2022

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENT PAGE
INTRODUCTION 3-4
XXX X
XXX X
XXX X
XXX X
CONCLUSION X

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INTRODUCTION
In this written assignment, we will be comparing the two types of autocracy which is

the authoritarian and the absolute monarchy by giving some examples from nations that

practices the two types of autocracy whether it is about their similarities, advantages,

disadvantages and etc.

Firstly, there are a few definitions regarding the authoritarian and the absolute

monarchy in which I have chosen few definitions coming from the Cambridge Dictionary and

Merriam-Webster Dictionary. According to the Cambridge dictionary, authoritarian is defined

as a type of government that demands people to obey complete and refuses to give them

any freedom while the absolute monarchy is defined as a monarchical form of government

where the monarch exercises the ultimate governing authority as head of the state and head

of the government, thus wielding the political power over the sovereign state and its subject

people. Or in simpler words authoritarian is the power of the single ruler which is unlimited

while the absolute monarchy is where the monarch institution is the Head of state from time

to time through heritance.

Moving on, authoritarian is a type of autocracy that totally opposes the people rights,

and they demand a total obedience from the people to follow their rules and order.

Moreover, the government that practices this type of autocracy often use violence way to

enforces their rules and order in according to their own principles in which we commonly

know from the present and the past where they are very hostile to democracy. On the other

hand, absolute monarchy is where the monarch has a total control of power in all political

authority. For example, Louis XIV of France expressed this idea in the famous phrase “I am

the state” in which it could be interpreted as “I am the government and what I say goes”. This

famous phrase itself shows that the monarch is the one who has full control of the country in

any political authority whether it is about the people, policy making and etc.

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Furthermore, there are a lot of countries in the world that are still practicing the

authoritarian and the absolute monarchy. As for the authoritarian, countries such as China,

North Korea, Vietnam, Belarus, Cuba, and more are still practicing authoritarian. On the

other hand, countries such as Brunei, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait,

Qatar, and more are still practicing the absolute monarchy.

In this topic, after having some discussion our group have decided to make a

comparison between two countries in which we have chosen China for the authoritarian and

Brunei for the absolute monarchy.

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CONCLUSION

As for the conclusion, we can conclude that there are a lot of pros and cons between

the authoritarian and the absolute monarchy. Just as per mentioned above absolute

monarchy is also one of the great forms of autocracy as there are high security levels that

protected the monarch which acts as a co-factor to protect the people of the country itself.

Moreover, absolute monarchy tends to have stronger forces that will protect them from any

harm as such as in Brunei, they have the Gurkha Reserves Unit that which is an elite soldier

of the Sultanate of Brunei. On the other hand, authoritarian itself is very beneficial to the

single ruler or individual and the country itself. This can be proven with how the Chinese

government predominantly control all of its economic activities which eventually increases

their economy revenue. For example, China is on the second place in GDP with an amount

of $14.72 Trillion. To end the discussion, we believe that any type of autocracy is good for

the people as long as it is done in such a way that it gives more benefits to the people and

the country.

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