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First, in reality the whole thing is fluid and political science is more of an art than a science. There is a part of me that sees government from the lens of The Dictators Handbook which views governments without any regard to ideology but only on the number of people who control wealth (democratic governments have large groups of people while autocratic have smaller groups). From that perspective I'd imagine that AutDem, PatAut and NatPop are the same sort of oligarchy with an elite group of maybe a hundred people in government, industry, military, media and religion who make all of the decisions for the state.

However in my experience there is more motivating people than merely a desire for control of the budget. Though I could never get past the pornography in Game of Thrones but it had some great thought on the subject power is power and power lies where people believe it lies. The primary difference between the three authoritarian government has to do with the stories people tell to explain power. As best I can tell NatPop tells a story of a great people and the emphasis is on the blood of the people, they are the descendants of gods and are of a different sort then other people. AuthPat is a story about a great man, the world is filled with chaos but HE brings order and so we follow HIM. AuthDem is a story about a great nation, the government is better than other governments and its laws are better than other laws.

How I understand this is to say the OTL Churchill in the UK was an authoritarian democrat. The justification for his quasi-dictatorship was not that Churchill was just such a great man (though obviously that is implied in his telling of story) and certainly it was not that noble English blood is better than other blood (though that too he believed) but primarily it was that the United Kingdom was the greatest empire in the world because its laws were just and it made the world a better place. Churchill's narrative was that they would win because their whole system was just better than those of their enemies.

We can add Totalism to the same model since the number of people who controlled the budget was very similar to that of the others. Their story is that they have set the people free and any oppose them are seeking to enslave the people, therefore everyone should give up what they have for the cause of the world's freedom.

There's a a DK book titled "The Politics Book". It briefly goes over a vast array of political figures and their key "political idea", so to speak. Its not particularly detailed/comprehensive about the ideas it covers, but it does give a solid introduction to the key concepts of said ideas. For example, there are sections on Confucius, Karl Marx, St. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Sun Tzu, Vladimir Lenin, Rosa Luxembourg, Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Friedrich Nietzsche, James Madison, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Eduard Bernstein, etc. It covers many different political thinkers over 2500 years of human history. Its a great place to start if you're interested in figuring out your political identity.

Wikipedia is also a great place to read, as well. There are thousands of pages on different political ideologies, figures, and parties.

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Edit: Its a little expensive, but worth the price of admission. https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Book-Ideas-Simply-Explained/dp/1465402144

Except Ossendowski admitted that the vast majority of his book was heavily exaggerated, if not outright bullshit (see: the parts where he claims every Buddhist knows about a secret underground kingdom running beneath all of Asia). If you want a scholarly and accurate book on Roman von Ungern-Sternberg's life, I highly recommend The Baron's Cloak by Willard Sunderland.

https://www.amazon.com/More-Hunger-William-Dudley-Pelley/dp/1426951116

Get yourself a real mans book

Is this book good? https://www.amazon.com/Bloody-White-Baron-Extraordinary-Nobleman/dp/0465022073

https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Masterplan-Facts-Figures-Germany/dp/1907446966

https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Dog-Amazing-America-History/dp/1439109028

Its also a plot point in a kind of dated alternative history book.

https://www.amazon.com/Back-USSA-Eugene-Byrne/dp/0929480848/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=back+in+the+ussa&qid=1569328178&s=gateway&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.ca/King-Zog-Self-Made-Monarch-Albania/dp/0750944390

I have spent many hours reading about him and I have this coming in the mail

It's a book he wrote in OTL

No step on snek and it’s already has a flag!