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Masters and Slaves in Empty Spain: A Philosophical–Political Reading of Rural Depopulation

Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 263-276, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Rural depopulation in Spain reveals not only demographic decline but also the persistence of unequal power structures. Drawing on the classical elite theories of Pareto, Mosca, and Michels, alongside Hegel's master–slave dialectic, this article offers a socio‐philosophical and political interpretation of the phenomenon.
Leandro Sebastián Fervier, Victoria Sanagustín‐Fons   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Conspiracist Theory of Power

Politics and Governance
In recent years, conspiracy theories have surged in democratic politics, enabling illiberal parties, movements, and politicians to win the votes of constituents who are disillusioned with mainstream democratic politics.
Mert Can Bayar, Scott Radnitz
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Entre o comércio e a governação local. Fernão Gonçalves Façanha: um mercador eborense de finais da Idade Média

Medievalista, 2014
In this paper, we intend to follow the social and political trajectory of the merchant Fernão Gonçalves Façanha who conducted his professional activity in Évora, one of the most important cities of medieval Portugal, in the second half of the 14th ...
Joaquim Bastos Serra
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Legislative Control of Rulemaking in a Dependent State: A Critical Typology From Brazil

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In Brazil, legislative control conditions regulatory agencies' rulemaking through substantive limits, procedural requirements, and ex post review. Drawing on legal analysis and documentary evidence, this article maps these mechanisms through a differentiated framework that combines legislative oversight scholarship, historical institutionalism,
Paulo Borges Mathias Costa, Christiane dos Santos Teixeira Delphim, Paulo Henrique de Almeida Rodrigues   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“A Whale of a Chance”: Thomas E. Dewey, the U.S. South, and the Election of 1948

Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Republican Party's campaign in the South in 1948. It argues that many national and state Republicans believed that there was a real opportunity for the party's presidential candidate, Thomas E. Dewey, to win Border South states.
Lewis Johnson
wiley   +1 more source

Classical Greek Oligarchy

, 2017
This book thoroughly reassesses an important but neglected form of government in ancient Greece, the “rule of the few.” The book challenges scholarly orthodoxy by showing that oligarchy was not the default mode of politics from time immemorial, but ...
Matthew Simonton
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Cittadinanze coloniali arcaiche. Appunti su Massalia, Siracusa e Apollonia sullo Ionio

Erga-Logoi
Archaic colonial citizenships. Notes on Massalia, Syracuse and Apollonia on the Ionian Sea Among the citizen bodies of the Greek colonies in the West, there are some notable cases in which the group of people who ‘participate in the community’ is ...
Maurizio Giangiulio
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Revisiting Capital and Class in the Ecological Crisis: Toward an Expanded and Historical Approach

Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical review of recent literature examining the entanglement of ecological crisis, capitalism, and class struggle, and proposes the incorporation of an expanded and historical perspective on class. First, we offer an introductory conceptual mapping of the anticapitalist ecology and some of its most significant ...
Julio Martínez‐Cava Aguilar, Rubén Martínez Moreno   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Populist Policies in the Transition to Democracy [PDF]

This paper develops a political economy model that provides an explanation as for why ruling elites in oligarquic societies may rely on income redistribution to the poor (the masses) in order to prevent them from attempting a revolution. We refer to this
Daniel Mejía, Carlos Esteban Posada
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Oligarchy as a Political Regime in Aristotle and in Contemporary Politics

, 2022
The author of this thesis will analyze the idea of oligarchy and how it changed throughout the years, starting from the times of Aristotle, one of the first political philosophers who dedicated his time and research the topic, to contemporary definition ...
Novozhilov, Veniamin Igorevich
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