Autarchy may refer to: * Autarchism, an ideology or practice that promotes individual self-governance *

Autocracy Autocracy is a system of government in which absolute power over a state is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject neither to external legal restraints nor to regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perh ...

, an ideology or practice that promotes concentration of power in the hands of one person * Autarky, an ideology of practice that promotes (social, cultural, economic) self-sufficiency

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