چکیده:
The present study aimed to answer the question that Qajar government as a political system was an
authoritarian government? This study deals with the outcomes of Qajar Authoritarianism and the impact of
effective historical-geographical conditions of Iran on emergence or continuance of Authoritarianism.
Authoritarianism in this study is not a one-dimensional structure and it is composed of some elements as
imposing violence, illegitimate governance and illegal issues. This study is document-historical design and all
the existing documents regarding study are study population. The present study is one of the applied studies in
which the data are collected as note taking and the data are analyzed by qualitative method. The evaluation of
factors in Authoritarianism of the study shows that Qajar era was Authoritarianism not totalitarian with
negative economic, political and social outcomes for the society on that era and for future generation. Based on
the results of study, we can say that these policies caused the collapse of this regime. This study showed that by
review of history, without any bias and prejudice of a specific movement, based on social sciences theories, we
can identify the reasons of occurrence of phenomenon and avoid its repetition in future (experiencing).
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Achieving power via illegal and non-democratic ways as via violence, coercion, plunder, succession crisis, cope, war and even revolution, increasing the interference of government in various political, economic, social, religious and educational levels, inconsistency of government policies with public culture and ignoring the people requests and applying unlimited power by law are the factors creating authoritarian governments.
The emphasis on governance law and not law governance, unlimited political tenure of the leader or ruling party and power monopoly , avoiding the parties formation and opposition groups, control of society and citizens by education institutions (what should people learn or not learn), mass media (determining what the newspapers should write or not write or what Radio and TV should broadcast or not broadcast), the role of job creation and government investment and its control on all cultural, political and social aspects, equipment of all resource and facilities to solve legitimacy crisis in various levels (system, policies and people), tendency to nationalism, using all resources and state structures and violence tools in the change of traditional and deprived society to a modern society, lack of responding to the citizens regarding their actions, show off of election system and law and life style of citizens as they lose their identity are the features of authoritarian governments."