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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.
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.
1 sty 2008 · Abstract. Liberal democracy appears to feel far from safe today. Fears of theocratic threats such as the introduction of Shar’ia law and anti-Western jihad abound. This article examines the...
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.
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 · This chapter is devoted to theocracy, a type of a political system defined by its supernatural legitimation, not the rule of religious functionaries. It presents religion as a resource used to sanction political power on normative, institutional and personal...
In a theocracy, voters, rather than being regarded as a collective sovereign delegating its power to a representative, are denunciatores divinae providentiae—instruments God uses to reveal his will. Let us review some of the most important succession procedures iden-tifiable in theocratic political systems (see Potz 2016a, 201–206). 1.
