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Power degree zero: Montesquieu, Tocqueville, despotism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Political Power, 2022
This paper considers the applicability and history of the concept of despotism as a critical model of political power. In spite of its 'Orientalist' pedigree, critical perusal of the work of Montesquieu (and, secondarily, Tocqueville) reveals that the ...
Thomas Osborne
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An evolutionary model explaining the Neolithic transition from egalitarianism to leadership and despotism [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014
The Neolithic was marked by a transition from small and relatively egalitarian groups, to much larger groups with increased stratification. But the dynamics of thisremain poorly understood.
Laurent Lehmann, Simon T Powers
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The Population Ecology of Despotism [PDF]

open access: yesHuman Nature, 2014
Since despotism is a common evolutionary development in human history, we seek to understand the conditions under which it can originate, persist, and affect population trajectories.
Bruce Winterhalder, Adrian Viliami Bell
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Despotism

2023
Abstract This chapter deals with platform ‘despotism’. Certain platforms can indeed usefully be analogized to (quasi-)autocratic states whose benevolence is not a given. Can antitrust rationalize the ‘competition problem’ when such autocratic platforms take a despotic turn? This chapter argues that the answer is a qualified yes.
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Despot Island

Communications of the ACM
Homing despots.
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Despotics

Abstract How should we understand the relationship between Roman slavery and Roman literature? This essay elucidates an account of the work of mastery—“despotics”—articulated in ancient Greek and Roman sources and argues that these concerns impinge on the work of literary production and consumption in the Roman world especially.
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The Road to Despotism

1972
The people of Pakistan awoke to greet the dawn of freedom only to be confronted with the thick black clouds of communal fury, wholesale extermination of the Muslims in East Punjab, and social disruption and economic destitution of many millions of men, women and children.
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