Types of Relationships between Different Kinds of Authoritarian Regimes and Political Communication in the Internet

The main purpose of the study is to reveal and describe the main features of the connection that takes place between political institutions and their complexes on the one side, and the process of political communication online development. The study also seeks to define the means by which political communication online can affect and affects the process of civil society formation and development. The first stage of the study includes examination of several possible ways to classify all the authoritarian regimes existing in the world. Having that done, one of these classifications is chosen. It has to be able to describe authoritarian institutional design in the most concrete way, compared to the other classifications. The second stage conceptualizes political communication online and also describes how it can affect the process of horizontal connections establishment and development. On the last stage there is case study. The cases are regimes representing their groups. The objects of the main interest here are political institutions as indicators of the co-optation levels, traditional and «new» media and their place in the society and the state, all kinds of restrictions that can possibly be met by an average Internet user in the country.