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Journal articles on the topic "Despotism. Political science"

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Dimova, Gergana. "Democratic Procedures Are Not Inherently Democratic." Democratic Theory 8, no. 1 (2021): 96–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/dt.2021.080106.

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In his latest opus, The New Despotism, John Keane continues to challenge existing wisdom in the field of democratic theory and comparative political studies. One of the key insights of the book is that there is nothing inherently democratic about democratic innovations and procedures, and thus they can be used to prop up despotisms, rather than usher in democracy. While this insight comports with existing misgivings about elections, the book stands out in the way it explains the sustainability of using the democratic procedures in the new despotisms. For democratic procedures to further the ai
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Diken, Bülent. "Neo-Despotism as Anti-Despotism." Theory, Culture & Society 38, no. 4 (2021): 47–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276420978289.

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I treat despotism as a virtual concept. Thus it is necessary to expose its actualizations even when it appears as its opposite, refusing to recognize itself as despotism. I define despotism initially as arbitrary rule, in terms of a monstrous transgression of the law. But since the monster is grounded in its very formlessness, it cannot be demonstrated. However, one can always try to de-monstrate it through disagreements. In doing this, I deal with despotism not as a solipsistic undertaking but as part of a constellation that always already contains two other elements: economy and voluntary se
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Shlapentokh, Dmitry. "Marx, the “Asiatic Mode of Production,” and “Oriental Despotism” as “True” Socialism." Comparative Sociology 18, no. 4 (2019): 489–521. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341505.

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Abstract Marx believed that socialist revolution, i.e., the end of the private ownership of the “means of production”, would make the state weak in the long run: the state would “wither away”. He also believed that the despotic state is related to Oriental despotism, marked by general ossification. Here Marx followed the views of his contemporaries. The socialist revolutions in Russia and China demonstrate that Marx was wrong: the end of private ownership of the “means of production” creates a state similar to Oriental despotism, but it is a quite dynamic and economically viable regime. The US
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Lloyd, Margie. "In Tocqueville's Shadow: Hannah Arendt's Liberal Republicanism." Review of Politics 57, no. 1 (1995): 31–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670500019926.

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An unfortunate consequence of viewing Arendt's thought in terms of a Hellenic-Nietzschean continuum is to raise serious questions about the enduring significance of Arendt's work on totalitarianism and its opposite: political and personal freedom. What is missing from the dominant scholarship is an appreciation of Arendt's acknowledged debt to Tocqueville; there is considerable suspicion that their differences are more important than their similarities. But Arendt and Tocqueville agree that the central political problem of modernity is despotism. Parts one and two challenge the view that Tocqu
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Diken, Bülent. "The Despotic Imperative." Cultural Politics 15, no. 2 (2019): 184–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-7515042.

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The article thematizes the actuality of despotism through a double reading of Xenophon’s Hiero and Dave Eggers’s Circle. A key text on despotism, Hiero is interesting to reconsider in a contemporary context because of its explicit focus on the economic element in the nexus of despotism, economy, and voluntary servitude. Discussing this nexus in an ancient context, the article turns to The Circle, a dystopic novel from 2013, which elaborates on how the attempt at creating a transparent society results in the perversion of democracy to the point where a despotism fueled by economization and volu
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Arnhart, Larry. "Biology and Despotism." Politics and the Life Sciences 6, no. 1 (1987): 91–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0730938400002811.

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Richter, Melvin. "The Concept of Despotism and l'abus des mots." Contributions to the History of Concepts 3, no. 1 (2007): 5–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/180793207x209057.

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In this article, the author applies the methodology of Begriffsgeschichte to the study of the concept of despotism in France, focusing mainly on the eighteenth century and the Revolution. During this period despotism became a basic concept (Grundbegriff), and thus highly contested. At the same time, the concept's long history, which stretches back to antiquity and includes the semantic boundaries that previously made it indistinguishable from "tyranny," created a diachronic thrust against which anyone seeking to add a new meaning or application had to work. Finally, as other key concepts, desp
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Taylor, George E. "China as an Oriental Despotism." Problems of Post-Communism 42, no. 1 (1995): 25–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10758216.1995.11655581.

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EHRLICH, JOSHUA. "The Crisis of Liberal Reform in India: Public opinion, pyrotechnics, and the Charter Act of 1833." Modern Asian Studies 52, no. 6 (2018): 2013–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x16000780.

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AbstractThis article reveals the Charter Act of 1833 as a turning point in the history of British-Indian political thought, which foreclosed, for a generation, liberal efforts to reform Britain's avowedly despotic regime in India. Anticipating a victory in their transmarine campaign to make the state accountable to an Indian ‘public’, reformers were disillusioned to find instead that the new Act was founded on enlightened despotism. Attempting to gather popular support for the authoritarian vision of reform espoused by Thomas Babington Macaulay and the other framers of the Act, Governor-Genera
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McGinn, Marie. "John Keane: The New Despotism." Society 58, no. 3 (2021): 244–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-021-00602-x.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Despotism. Political science"

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Zheng, Chuxuan. "The difference and complementarity of the liberal-democratic and moral-despotic traditions : a comparison between Western and Chinese political ideas." Thesis, Brunel University, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.331999.

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Ngye, Alain Patrick Patou. "Domination personnelle et élite politique au Gabon (1968-2009)." Thesis, Bordeaux 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BOR40034.

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La présente thèse éclaire l’intelligibilité du régime politique gabonais sous Omar BONGO (1968-2009). Plus précisément, elle relève que la domination personnelle et l’analyse élitiste sont deux approches complémentaires dans la compréhension du politique au Gabon et partant, en Afrique subsaharienne. Elle montre à cet effet qu’Omar BONGO n’a pas pu compter que sur lui-même pour se maintenir au pouvoir pendant près d’un demi-siècle. Il a dû également s’appuyer sur un groupe d’acteurs, appelé élite politique, dont l’organisation et le fonctionnement étaient néanmoins empreints de son pouvoir per
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Young, Lauren Elyssa. "The Psychology of Repression and Dissent in Autocracy." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D86110HB.

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How do autocrats maintain power? In many cases, autocrats lack the support of a majority of the population. This problem is particularly stark in electoral autocracies, where autocrats must generate millions of favorable votes in order to stay in power. Coercion, or the forcible exclusion of some segments of the population from power, is one tool that many autocrats use to solve this problem. However, creating coercive institutions is also dangerous for autocrats, as the same forces that can be used to coerce citizens can also be used to depose or demand resources from the autocrat himself.
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Books on the topic "Despotism. Political science"

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Iorio, Bruno. Analisi del decisionismo: Carl Schmitt e la nostalgia del tiranno. Giannini, 1987.

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Delacampagne, Christian. Le philosophe et le tyran: Histoire d'une illusion. Presses universitaires de France, 2000.

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Trenchard, John. The English libertarian heritage: From the writings of John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon in the Independent Whig and Cato's Letters. Fox & Wilkes, 1994.

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Sanctis, Francesco M. De. Dall'assolutismo alla democrazia: Saggi. G. Giappichelli, 1989.

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Ṭaḥḥān, Muḥammad Jamāl. al- Istibdād wa-badāʾiluhu fī fikr al-Kawākibī: Dirāsah. Ittiḥād al-Kuttāb al-ʻArab, 1992.

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Najjār, Muḥammad Aḥmad. Mumārasat al-sulṭah al-muqayyadah: Dirāsah ʻilmīyah fī ẓāhirat al-istibdād. al-Maktab al-ʻArabī lil-Maʻārif, 2021.

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Roscio, Juan Germán. El triunfo de la libertad sobre el despotismo. Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1996.

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Dreitzel, Horst. Absolutismus und ständische Verfassung in Deutschland: Ein Beitrag zu Kontinuität und Diskontinuität der politischen Theorie in der frühen Neuzeit. Ph. von Zabern, 1992.

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Nolla, Eduardo, ed. Alexis de Tocqueville. Libertad, igualdad, despotismo. Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales, 2007.

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Wilson, Peter H. Absolutism in Central Europe. Taylor & Francis Group Plc, 2004.

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Book chapters on the topic "Despotism. Political science"

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Kurzman, Charles. "Introduction." In Liberal Islam. Oxford University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195116212.003.0001.

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Abstract “Liberal Islam” may sound like a contradiction in terms. For centuries, the West has identified Islam with its most exotic elements. Islamic faith is equated with fanaticism, as in Voltaire’sMahomet, or Fanaticism (1745). Islamic political authority is equated with despotism, as in Montesquieu’s intentionally redundant phrase “Oriental despotism” or Francis Bacon’s definition (1612): “A monarchy, where there is no nobility at all, is ever a pure and absolute tyranny; as that of the Turks.” Islamic military practices are equated with terror and rape, as in Eugene Delacroix’s famous pai
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Wolin, Sheldon S. "Hobbes and the Culture of Despotism." In Fugitive Democracy, edited by Nicholas Xenos. Princeton University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691133645.003.0007.

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This chapter argues that Hobbes's was the first modern philosopher in whom a despotic mentality was at work. He perpetuated Bacon's political reading of science, and he fully appreciated the political structure implicit in Bacon's conception of scientific knowledge. Bacon's credo “knowledge is power” was transcribed to read “knowledge is for the sake of power” (scientia propter potentiam). Hobbes's despotic mentality is revealed in the several departments of his theory, not just in his political writings: in his thinking about human nature, physical nature, knowledge, scientific inquiry, and t
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Bandopadhyay, Saptarishi. "Portugal 1755." In All Is Well. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579190.003.0004.

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Chapter 4 traces the emergence of disaster management and the modern, scientific state following the Lisbon earthquake of 1775. It studies how the Marquês de Pombal, who rose to power in the quake’s aftermath, revolutionized the Portuguese state by explaining the calamity as a natural accident susceptible to centralized and scientific management. Chapter 4 follows Pombal’s efforts to reclaim moral, political, economic, and ecological hegemony from rival sovereigns and the Jesuit Order. It shows that the state’s claim to master natural chaos and superstition through science and rational governa
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Adams, Maeve. "Persuasion, Power, and Democracy in De Quincey." In Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780191954474.003.0017.

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Abstract This essay re-examines Thomas De Quincey’s theory of the “literature of power”: a notoriously complex conception of aesthetics that accords distinctive epistemological, moral, and political purpose to literary—as opposed to scientific—forms of writing. Joining contemporary efforts to craft a new rhetoric in the wake of the Enlightenment, when classical rhetoric and its ancient arts of persuasion lost authority to the science of proof, De Quincey reimagines the role that literary invention could play in the ongoing emergence of modern democracy. Despite being an avowed Tory, De Quincey
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