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A ‘Military Rule’ as a specific (occidental) type of despotism in Montesquieu’s Theory

Političke Perspektive, 2015
Montesquieu writes about “military rule” in all of his three main works: in the Persian Letters, in Considerations on the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans, as well as his magnum opus On the Spirit of the Laws.
Aleksandar Molnar
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The History of Dictatorship: Custom, Authority, and Power in Precolonial and Colonial Uganda

Africa Spectrum, 2023
Intervening in the enduring debate on the origins of the African state, this article examines the processes of producing custom in the Ugandan societies of precolonial Bunyoro and colonial Toro to trace the development of despotism.
Yahya Sseremba
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Islamic Public Administration in Practice: The Taliban's “Gender Apartheid” Governance in Afghanistan

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim, Jean‐Patrick Villeneuve   +1 more
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Théâtre et histoire contemporaine chez Stendhal : la politique mise en scène (1802-1804)

Revue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises
Most of the play projects on which Stendhal worked between 1802 and 1804, and in particular the two most accomplished, Les Deux hommes and Letellier, have a link with contemporary history, from the revolutionary period to the beginnings of the Empire: he
Cécile Meynard
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Political institutions and their historical dynamics. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Traditionally, political scientists define political institutions deductively. This approach may prevent from discovery of existing institutions beyond the definitions.
Mikael Sandberg, Per Lundberg
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Financial Inclusion, Energy Transition, and Sustainable Development in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Distributional Panel Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) faces pressing financing and structural transitions to achieve the 2030 Agenda, yet the distributional relationships linking financial inclusion and renewable energy adoption to sustainable development goal (SDG) achievement remain underexplored. This study investigates the roles of multidimensional financial inclusion
Mehdi Seraj, Abdulmajeed Tsowa Muhammad, Turgut Tursoy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Savoyard State:another Enlightened Despotism?

, 2009
Argues case for regarding the Savoyard State as an example of late eighteenth centrury "Enlightened ...
Storrs, Christopher
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Literary constitutionalists [PDF]

تاریخ ادبیات, 2008
The beginning of the Constitutional Revolution was at the same time as the domination of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. The role of poetry and literature in this great transformation is undeniable.
نصرالّه امامی, مسعود دلاویز   +1 more
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How Leaders With Dark Personality Shape Their Climates: Developing a Theory of Influence Tactics and Follower Responses

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite burgeoning attention to dark leaders, we lack understanding about how they shape their climates. Using the dark triad (Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy), we integrate social psychology and leadership research on interpersonal, romantic and leader–follower relationships to identify two predominant influence strategies ...
Al‐Karim Samnani, Sadia Jahanzeb
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L’art de gouverner : Les noces de sang parisiennes de Gottsched et l’Anti-Machiavel de Frédéric II

Etudes Epistémè
In his tragedy Die parisische Bluthochzeit König Heinrichs von Navarra / The Paris Blood Wedding of King Henry of Navarre (1745), Johann Christoph Gottsched takes up ideas he had set out twenty years earlier in an academic speech condemning religious ...
Gérard Laudin
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