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What, if anything, distinguishes a strong state from an authoritarian…

- - - - Assad's father was President for decades.
      - Assad's brother is head of the regimes security force.
      - Assad ran for president with no political opposition.
  - - - Military Dictatorship
      - Pinochet
      - Suppression of political activity, human rights violations.
      - Neo-liberal market economy.
- - - - Organic Statism
      - Post-independence Mobilisation
      - Mobilisational Post-democratic
      - Bureaucratic-military
      - Post-totalitarianism
      - Ethnocracies
  - - - Urban middle classes act as bourgeoisie.
      - Peasants revolt in left wing authoritarianism.
      - Labour-repressive landlords revolt in right wing authoritarianism.
    - - Populism for import substitute industrialisation.
      - Bureaucratic authoritarianism for industrial deepening.
      - True of Latin American regimes.
- - - - Policies strength, conflict and penetration.
    - - Strength of state measured through conflict, revolution, strength of economic and foreign policy, permeability, depth and breadth of penetration.
- - - - E.g. Syria
        
        Was strong when state run and state-authorised institutions were legitimised.
        But this was lost after the Arab Spring.
    - - E.g. Russia's social revolution after the authoritarian regime of 1880 to 1917.
  - - - Economic pressures arise leaading to instability
      - Fails to respond to social forces due to high level of autonomy.
      - Transform sociopolitical life, therefore destabilising it.
      - High depth of penetration, high breadth of penetration, low permeability.
      - Strong states often lead to revolutions.
      - Sweden's authoritarian regime of 1870-1932 was a weak state, and no revolution occurred.