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23 lut 2012 · Quantitative evidence on the rise of ancient Israelite theocracy and the current surge of Islamic theocratic fundamentalism provides surprisingly strong support for this prediction. Lastly, supportive evidence is suggested by two rare instances of a theocracy’s peaceful demise.
1 lis 2020 · We use a novel dataset comprising the religious and political histories of today's nations to construct an index of historical religious fragmentation, which we use as a proxy variable for the extent of premodern theocracy.
1 sty 2008 · This article examines the dialectics of democracy and theocracy with special reference to past and present processes of secularization.
XML. The Confrontation between Classical Political Philosophy and the Gods of the City. Download. XML. Between Rationalism and Theocracy:: Plato, the Mysteries, and F. W. J. Schelling’s Analysis of the Modern State. Download. XML. The Place of Religion in Politics:: On Analogous Gods and the Piety of the Unspoken. Download.
15 sie 2019 · Abstract. This chapter looks into three key aspects of theocratic power relations: how rulers are selected (succession procedures), how their power is institutionalized within the system (institutional regimes) and how they make the ruled conform to the norms they establish (political control).
1 lis 2020 · An empirical analysis of the transition from premodern to modern theocracy, based on a unique dataset of religion and politics in world history, indicates that the adoption of general rules in the modern era differed systematically between societies in which strong state capacity was a complement rather than a substitute for religion.
1 sty 2013 · This paper models theocracy as a regime where the clergy in power retains knowledge of the cost of political production but which is potentially incompetent, quarrelsome, or corrupt.
