Totalitarian parties absorb the Crown’s arbitrating function.

Evidence

Totalitarianism is distinct from traditional despotism, but is all the more frightening as a result. Totalitarian rule connects political, military, and ideological power in more concentrated form than was ever possible before the emergence of modern nation-states. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Totalitarian leaders absorb total responsibility for all subordinates’ acts; Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31; Totalitarian government is a powerless façade over real party power (+4 more)

Related

• Totalitarian domination cannot be derived from one-party systems (similarity 0.87)
• Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not (similarity 0.85)
• Tyranny is dissolved by predictability or by independent overriding power (similarity 0.84)
• Totalitarian government differs categorically from dictatorship and tyranny (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci’s ‘totalitarian intelligentsia’ means a unified, all-absorbing intellectual stratum, not a despotism (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian regimes duplicate every state function with a parallel party organ (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian ideology becomes as untouchable as arithmetic to members. (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian movements subordinate the nation’s institutions to the movement itself (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian rule removes all reliable mediating levels between ruler and ruled (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarian government is not monolithic but a shapeless dual authority of party and state (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarian leaders differ from despots in being genuinely unconstrained (similarity 0.79)
• The despotism analogy for totalitarian police applies only in early rule (similarity 0.79)
• A party is an embryonic state and can permit no division of power (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarian dictatorship rules its own country like a foreign conqueror (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Totalitarianism concentrates state powers in ways traditional despotism could not #expands (0.85) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 31
• A ruling party exercises hegemonic power without formal juridical rule #qualifies (0.80)
• Totalitarian government is a powerless façade over real party power #expands (0.75)
• Subordinate class institutions can be absorbed to contain rather than end opposition. #responds-to (0.75)
• Constitutional adjudication can achieve total prohibition where legislation cannot #complicates (0.72) — , The Rod and the Child, 10912