UPSC CAPF AC 2019 Paper

According to Andrew Heywood, theocracy invests political authority with potentially unlimited power. This is because, as temporal power is derived from spiritual wisdom, it cannot be based on the popular consent, or be properly constrained within a constitutional framework. For example, the Islamic regimes (the states of North Africa, the Middle east and parts of South and South-East Asia) violate the distinction between private and public realms and are fraught with authoritarian tendencies.