Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. social science concepts
5. political concepts
6. [political ideologies and attitudes]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts
4. social science concepts
5. political concepts
6. government
7. government by form

Anotations

Scope note:

A government or political system in which absolute power or control is exercised by a single ruler or a tightly knit group of people, often with the connotation of arbitrariness and self-interest.