- this idea in his Iron Law of
Oligarchy He
argued that even democracies, like all
large organizations, tend to
become oligarchic due to the
necessity of dividing...
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democratic they may be at the start, will
eventually and
inevitably develop oligarchic tendencies, thus
making true
democracy practically and
theoretically impossible...
- ὀλίγος (oligos) 'few' and ἄρχειν (archein) 'rule') is a "member of an
oligarchy; a
person who is part of a
small group holding power in a state". Gilded...
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called the
period from
roughly 1714 to 1783 the "long
period of Whig
oligarchy".
During the
American Revolution, the
Whigs were the
party more sympathetic...
- The
Meiji oligarchy was the new
ruling class of
Meiji period ****an. In ****anese, the
Meiji oligarchy is
called the
domain clique (藩閥, hambatsu). The members...
-
Broligarchy is a
neologism and
portmanteau combining oligarchy and
broism describing the rule of
government by a
coterie of
extremely wealthy men (occupying...
- the polity.
Hereditary rule in this
understanding is more
related to
oligarchy, a
corrupted form of
aristocracy where there is rule by a few, but not...
-
discusses in the
Republic five
types of regimes: aristocracy, timocracy,
oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny. The
question raised by
Plato in the Republic:...
- and
proceeds in a
runaway manner.
Growth later slows and
continues as
oligarchic accretion. The end
result is
formation of
planetary embryos of varying...
- The
Battle of
Munychia was
fought between Athenians exiled by the
oligarchic government of the
Thirty Tyrants and the
forces of that government, supported...
