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1 sty 2008 · This article examines the dialectics of democracy and theocracy with special reference to past and present processes of secularization.
21 paź 2008 · In Ferrero’s chapter, 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-
This article argues that Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter can provide insight into the persistent appeal of the moral and political certitudes that theocracy offers and that can serve as a corrective to liberal secularism's often.
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.
23 lut 2012 · Quantitative evidence on the rise of ancient Israelite theocracy and the current surge of Islamic theocratic fundamentalism provides surprisingly strong support for this prediction. Lastly, supportive evidence is suggested by two rare instances of a theocracy’s peaceful demise.
Theocratic democracy, the de facto grand bargain between religious groups and political leaders, offers key insights into the relationship between faith, freedom, and the global democratic recession.
15 sie 2019 · Abstract. This chapter looks into three key aspects of theocratic power relations: how rulers are selected (succession procedures), how their power is institutionalized within the system (institutional regimes) and how they make the ruled conform to the norms they establish (political control).
