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1 lis 2020 · An empirical analysis of the transition from premodern to modern theocracy, based on a unique dataset of religion and politics in world history, indicates that the adoption of general rules in the modern era differed systematically between societies in which strong state capacity was a complement rather than a substitute for religion.
12 wrz 2024 · Theocracy, government by divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided. In many theocracies, government leaders are members of the clergy, and the state’s legal system is based on religious law.
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.
1 sty 2008 · This article examines the dialectics of democracy and theocracy with special reference to past and present processes of secularization.
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.
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...
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