How do you get power in Autocracy and Democracy?You have to compare and contrast the two.

While I agree with the first answer that power in an
autocracy can be seized, that is not the only way that a ruler can get power.  There are
other ways, especially later on in the life of the
autocracy.

The most common (historical) way for an autocrat
to get power was to inherit it in some way.  Many monarchies have essentially been
autocracies.  But in these governmental systems, each autocrat did not have to seize
power.  Someone in the past had seized power and then that power had been handed down
through the generations.  You can see this in the modern world in, for example, North
Korea (not a monarchy, but power has been handed down from father to son to this
point).