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23 lut 2012 · This paper has addressed theocracy as a regime in which a clergy conducts political government directly in preference to an alternative arrangement where it negotiates a division of labor and rents with a secular ruler.
12 wrz 2024 · theocracy, government by divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided. In many theocracies, government leaders are members of the clergy, and the state’s legal system is based on religious law.
19 wrz 2024 · Key Takeaways: Theocracy. A theocracy is a form of government in which priests or religious leaders rule in the name of a deity or deities. Serving their divine leader or leaders rather than the citizens, theocracies are often oppressive in function, with harsh punishment for rule-breakers.
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 2013 · Quantitative evidence on the rise of ancient Israelite theocracy and the current surge of Islamic theocratic fundamentalism provides surprisingly strong support for this prediction.
ABSTRACT. 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.
15 sie 2019 · From the perspective of political science of religion, an approach based on the source of legitimacy of power, not on the religious or secular status of rulers, makes the concept of theocracy much more useful for political analysis.
