Title: The Impact of Autocratic Personality on Democratic Institutions

Analytic Essay. You need to write an analytic essay on autocratic, democratic, or technocratic personality, institution, or culture.
Topic: Focus on one issue in your essay. There are obviously nine possible issues to choose for your essay: Autocratic personality, democratic personality, technocratic personality; autocratic institution, democratic institution, technocratic institution; autocratic culture, democratic culture, technocratic culture.
Source: Read From Autocracy to Democracy to Technocracy: An Evolution of Human Polity(https://www.cambridgescholars.com/from-autocracy-to-democracy-to-technocracy). If you write on autocratic personality, you should read Part II completely so you can develop your ideas on it for a good essay. If you write on democratic institutions, you need to read Part III carefully. If you write on technocratic culture, you must read Part IV thoroughly.
Required Elements: Your essay must tackle these essential elements. For example, if you write on technocratic personality, you need to address (1) what automatic personality is, its main characteristics and behavioral symptoms; (2) what social factors and forces lie under autocratic personality; (3) how autocratic personality molds political leaders, influences common citizens, and shapes social atmospheres; and (4) how autocratic personality might penetrate in democracy and even technocracy while dominating autocracy.
Length: You may write your analytic essay for as long as you like. The minimum is 10 pages.
Format: Font: Times New Roman; Point: 12; Spacing: Double; Margin: one inch on each side.
Submission: You need to submit your analytic essay through Turnitin at our class site on Canvas. Essays showing a similarity rate of 15% or higher will be penalized with a deduction of 1.5 or higher points. For example, an essay identified by Turnitin as having a similarity rate of 21% will automatically lose 2.1 points. Essays showing a similarity rate of 50% or higher will be subject to the double penalties provided by the class policy on plagiarism: (a) you lose all 14 points partitioned to the essay assignment; and (b) you are penalized with a deduction of another 14 points from your earned total score.

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