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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.
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.
1 sty 2008 · This article examines the dialectics of democracy and theocracy with special reference to past and present processes of secularization.
A New Theocracy: Politics and Law and Irrepressible Religiosity. Thaddeus Williams. The most pressing cultural, political, and legal issues of our day are, fundamentally, worship issues. They are contemporary expressions of humanity’s irrepressible religiosity. How is this religiosity being expressed in the current Western political moment?
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.
Analyzing the relationship between religion and politicsthroughout the Middle East, Africa, and the United States, as wellas classical and medieval political ph...
21 paź 2008 · theocracy is a government in which the priests could actually govern them-selves, but sometimes choose to contract out the running of the government to secular authorities. Finally, rather than focusing on the regime’s objectives or on the nature of the ruling class, Glazer sees theocracy as a system of con-
