It is clear from the above that a totalitarian state is the anti-thesis of a liberal-democratic state. In a liberal-democratic model, the process of decision-making is dispersed; in the totalitarian model it is concentrated in the centre. The former strives for the maximization of political participation in a sincere way to secure legitimacy, the latter wants to minimize the same for the sake of consolidating its power by all possible means. The former stands for a pluralistic society with various social associations, the latter starve them or force them to live like colonies. In a totalitarian state, as Finer says, “nothing throughout the society escapes the party except through accidental or administrative.”