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Abstract

The overthrow of the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet regimes at the end of the twentieth century was celebrated by theorists of the ‘end of history’ as a victory of the Western model of the liberal-democratic state against dictatorship and totalitarianism. Recently, the prorogation of the British Parliament by the Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister was attacked by various politicians, the media and a great number of the British people as a dictatorship and a suspension of democracy. Sovereignty of parliament as the cornerstone of the British constitution means that Parliament is vested with absolute power and unconditional authority. The main purpose is to highlight the contradictions of the formal theories of dictatorship. Dialectical materialism refers to a mode of conceiving reality in its many-sided and contradictory movements. The change in the meaning of dictatorship from ancient Rome to early modernity is well documented.

Publication Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge, Dictatorship New Trajectories in Law on 24 February 2021, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Dictatorship-New-Trajectories-in-Law/Kivotidis/p/book/9781003145974
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform J Political Science > JC Political theory K Law
Departments:	The City Law School The City Law School > Academic Programmes
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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