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The Prince and the Prophet of Florence: Investigating the Impact of Savonarola\u27s Anthropology on the Political Philosophy of Machiavelli [PDF]

, 2016
This study seeks to investigate a connection between the political thought of Machiavelli and the philosophy prevalent in the work of Girolamo Savonarola. In this consideration, it will be necessary to examine the works of Savonarola. After considering
Sauskojus, Mikah
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'The Advisor': Counsel, Concealment, and Machiavelli’s Voice

Redescriptions, 2017
Machiavelli’s political works should be read not only as attempts to shape princely behavior, but as demonstrations of a model of advisory behavior. They are a performance of advice-giving, of the dispassionate, scientistic – but also quietly radical ...
Rob Goodman
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William E. Walling and the Pragmatist Foundations of Proto‐Western Marxism: A Re‐Evaluation and Critique

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reevaluates Walling as a neglected precursor to American Western Marxism, arguing that his 1912–1914 trilogy synthesized Marxist theory of his time and Deweyan pragmatism into a distinct “pragmatist conception of history.” Born into “aristocracy” yet radicalized, Walling's unique trajectory—as a co‐founder of the NAACP and critic ...
Paulo Antunes
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The Power of Persuasion. Rhetoric, Common Judgment and Machiavelli in Hobbes

Scienza & Politica, 2019
In this article, I explore the elusive function of rhetoric as a means to political pacification. With particular reference to Hobbes’s doctrine of the prophetic foundation of commonwealths, I contend that public persuasion, while being in most cases ...
Guido Frilli
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Klasik Elit Teorisyenlerinde Makyavelist İzler

Akademik İncelemeler Dergisi, 2022
Bu çalışmanın amacı Siyaset sosyolojisi disiplini içerisinde ele alınan elit teorileri ve seçkinci yaklaşımların klasik temsilcileri olan Pareto, Mosca ve Michels’in yaklaşımlarına İtalyan düşünür Machiavelli’nin etkisini incelemektir.
Muhammed Akif Yalçın
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Can an ethical revival of prudence within prudential regulation tackle corporate psychopathy? [PDF]

, 2012
The view that corporate psychopathy played a significant role in causing the global financial crisis, although insightful, paints a reductionist picture of what we present as the broader issue.
Baden, D., Guidi, M., Marshall, A.
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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The Freilich Lectures 2007: Religious Toleration in an Age of Terrorism [PDF]

, 2008
These lectures ask how religion can be related to violent acts. They begin by considering the ways in which religiously motivated terrorism has been understood in the 21st century and then go on to ask whether the lessons (both historical and ...
Mendus, Susan
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Unraveling authoritarian reform decision‐making: A metacognitive–subcognitive model

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent research indicates that state reforms in East and Southeast Asia have been predominantly top‐down and authoritarian‐led. However, this significant observation implicitly relies on important assumptions about authoritarian decision‐making behavior and psychology that remains understudied.
Eugene Yu Ji
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