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21 paź 2008 · the varied list of historical theocracies surveyed by Ferrero shows, theoc-racy features only male ruling classes: Catholic clergy, Israelite priesthood, Buddhist monkhood, Protestant congregations of “saints,” and the Muslim caliphate and sects. 4. The theocratic economy. Does theocracy bias the regime against innov ation, as Glazer argues?
23 lut 2012 · 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.
18 lis 2021 · The UN’s Commission on the Status of Women was a key actor: in the late 1960s it defined family planning in relation to a broadened definition of human rights, and repositioned it as a women’s...
1 sty 2008 · This article examines the dialectics of democracy and theocracy with special reference to past and present processes of secularization.
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.
7 paź 2024 · Theocracy means literally ‘the rule of God’ and the term was invented by Josephus (ad 38–c.100) to describe the ancient Hebrew constitution and the role of Mosaic law. However, if you do not literally believe that the law has been handed down by God on tablets of stone, it may be difficult to accept theocracies on their own terms.
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.
