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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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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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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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Machiavelli and Tocqueville on War and Armies
Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2023 In the Democracy in America’s chapters on war and armies in the transition from the aristocratic to the democratic social state (état social), Tocqueville briefly draws on Machiavelli regarding the conquest of a country with or without intermediary ...
Spyridon Tegos
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract In recent years economic inequality has become a major research topic in economic history. However, much remains to be done to complete our knowledge of long‐term distributive dynamics. This article highlights several promising avenues for future research, focusing on the preindustrial period.
Guido Alfani
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„Cum trăim este atât de departe de cum ar trebui să trăim”: contemporaneitatea lui Machiavelli [PDF]
Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2021 Interview with Georgios ...
Jozef Matula
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Political Realism in the Chinese Warring States Period and the European Renaissance:
Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2023 Τhis article presents the basic similarities and differences between the Political Realism of Niccolò Machiavelli in the 15th century A.D., i.e. during the Renaissance in Europe, and the Chinese Legalism of Han Fei in the 3rd century B.C., during the ...
Panagiotis Kallinikos
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International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Across much of the Global South and increasingly in the Global North, authoritarian populist imagination blurs boundaries between legality and illegality, weaponising law to suppress dissent while tolerating violence by allied actors. This imagination establishes a symbolic boundary mechanism between punitive/eliminative violence for political
Erman Örsan Yetiş
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