• Limited political pluralism, realized with constraints on the legislature, political parties and interest groups.
• Political legitimacy based upon appeals to emotion and identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat “easily recognizable societal problems, such as underdevelopment or insurgency”.
• Minimal political mobilization, and suppression of anti-regime activities.
• Ill-defined executive powers, often vague and shifting, which extends the power of the executive.

He wrote this in the 1960’s, mainly in reference to Spanish Fascism but not exclusively.