Talk:Autocracy

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What countries use this type of government?

It's not as much a form of government as it is a property of one. It is a property inherent to most empires or dictatorships. Wouter Lievens 22:22, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

hey

Imperator i Samodyerzhets Vserossiysky ("All-Russian Emperor and Autocrat") - Might I respectfully suggest that this is both more accurately and elegantly rendered "Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias," the plural referring to the nations and territories within his domain.

Perhaps Venezuela should be mentioned, due to how things seem to be running lately with Hugo Chavez. 70.90.61.57 14:14, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

As far as I know, historically the title 'autocrat' was used only by Byzantine and Russians, to emphasize ruler's power. It was also used by Ottoman Greeks for Ottoman sultan, in sense emperor. the definition of autocracy in this article is modern interpretation of the word as a form of government. historically it wasn't necessarily associated negatively, like tyrant etc. it was rather a characteristic of ruler. 85.101.221.5 (talk) 17:42, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Integration

This article has been modified to include content from similar articles per Wikipedia:WikiProject_Integration. Cwolfsheep 16:04, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

• Ultramarine did a ton of cleanup on the absolutism before junking it from the article completely. If anyone wants to resurrect that material in one of the original merges: what needs to happen is to reduce the redundant subjects and keep out "stretchs" (the DC stuff wasn't as pertinant to absolute rule as it was to devolution). Cwolfsheep 16:09, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Doesn't display properly

The page doesn't display properly. The forms of government portal menu is overlapping the bottom menu bar. It's probably the result of poor css coding and the float doesn't work properly. I don't know but maybe Wikipedia should be informed of this error because it can be applicable to other pages with similiar structure.