Polycracy

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Polycracy (from the Greek poly “many” and kratéin “rule”) describes the coexistence of competing institutions of government with the same or similar competencies.

The term was coined by history and characterizes interlocking power structures that cannot be clearly delimited . Particularly pronounced polycracy was to be found in the ruling system of National Socialism , in which party authorities competed with each other and with state institutions.

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literature

  • Klaus Hildebrand : Monocracy or Polycracy? Hitler's rule and the Third Reich. In: Karl Dietrich Bracher , Manfred Funke , Hans-Adolf Jacobsen (eds.): National Socialist dictatorship. 1933-1945. A balance sheet (= Bonn writings on politics and contemporary history. Vol. 21). Droste, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-7700-0630-5 , pp. 73-96.
  • Peter Hüttenberger : National Socialist Polycracy. In: History and Society. Vol. 2, No. 4, 1976, ISSN  0340-613X , pp. 417-442.
  • Michael Ruck: Führer absolutism and a polycratic system of rule. Constitutional structures of the Nazi state. In: Karl-Dietrich Bracher, Manfred Funke, Hans-Adolf Jacobsen (eds.): Germany 1933–1945. New studies on politics and contemporary history (= Bonn writings on politics and contemporary history. Vol. 23). 2nd, supplemented edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-7700-0993-2 , pp. 32-56.

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