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1 sty 2014 · Whatever their different names and forms, all these versions replicated the social and governmental links between central authorities and their localities, as they served as imperial points of contact corresponding to justices of the peace, provincial estates, and other institutions proceeding from the Old World.
An Elective Monarchy? The Monarchical Nature of the American Presidency in the Contemporary Public and Scientific Debate
3 gru 2016 · Why is it important to look at monarchy in modern or contemporary history? Is monarchy relevant? The answers to these basic questions have been assumed by much modern scholarship, but this Introduction explains why this volume challenges this easy assumption by...
4 How the Americans Combat Individualism with Free Institutions 5 On the Use That the Americans Make of Association in Civil Life 6 On the Relation between Associations and Newspapers 7 Relations between Civil Associations and Political Associations 8 How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Doctrine of Self-Interest Well Understood
While monarchies dominated eighteenth-century Europe, American revolutionaries were determined to find an alternative to this method of government. Radical pamphleteer Thomas Paine, whose enormously popular essay Common Sense was first published in January 1776, advocated a republic: a state without a king.
6 paź 2020 · The aim of the present study is to study to what extent the occurrence of semi-constitutional monarchies, i.e. democratic regimes in which power is shared between a prime minister and a monarch...
This book systematically categorises democratic political regimes with a separate head of state and government (including regimes with a monarch and prime minister, and president and PM) globally and over a long historical period 1850–2019.
