Obolensky (2014) explains that polyarchy is really a fusion‚ or natural evolution‚ of anarchy and oligarchy‚ and that Complex Adaptive Leadership does not mean that traditional approaches have to be thrown out. To further understand the terms from the reading I did an overview of the meaning of anarchy‚ oligarchy‚ and polyarchy. Webster dictionary defines anarchy as the absence of government; oligarchy as a government by the few; and polyarchy as a government by many persons. This weeks reading also
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including monarchy‚ oligarchy and tyranny. Monarchy The city-states in Greece were established some time around the 9th century BC. From around the 9th into the 8th centuries‚ a king‚ or “basileus‚” ruled the city-state with a group of nobles under him. However‚ the Athenian monarchy did not last very long. Government develops from many impulses and threads and the Athenians saw a landed
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The development of the Greek polis--whether a military oligarchy in Sparta or democracy in Athens--allowed citizens to participate in political issues. This concept of the "rule by the people‚" mainly in Athens‚ gave the citizens a sense of freedom and harmony. Greeks applied the label "polis" to all of the states‚ regardless of their political distinctions‚ because each was a koinonia‚ a community. After this period‚ the concept of the polis began to change. The regulation of power changed‚ along
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SOC 189 - #1 Exam 1. Is meritocracy fair? Discuss the pros and cons of our achievement-oriented society. Does it give rise to a meritorious elite? Why or why not? This country was founded on the principle that one’s status in society should be determined by your individual achievements‚ not by your conditions at birth. The idea is that we are all created equal‚ with equal opportunities‚ not results. The concept of meritocracy is essential to our ideas about American exceptionalism. A benefit
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|Type of Government |Advantages |Disadvantages |Picture Example | | |An advantage is that |A disadvantage can be if the |[pic] | |Representative Democracy |the people are usually |rights of the minority are not |
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different ideas from an oligarchy and a democracy type of of government and combined the two together and make their own version of a government which they called democracy‚ isn’t fully true they believed what they had was a democracy and in many ways it was. try to say they didn’t really give the power to the people so it wasn’t really a democracy‚ rather it was more of an oligarchy. The men acted as the governing group. Professor Hanson states‚ “...by our standards it was oligarchy not democracy. Second
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king had a group of nobles who served under him and there riches grew which culminated in a powerful body called the “Areopagus”. Areopagus was the name of the hill that the nobles met on and it was from this group that the oligarchy would develop (Ancient Athens 1). Oligarchy: a government where a small group of people exercise control for corrupt and selfish purposes (Merriam- Webster: online
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IS A POLITY THE BEST FORM OF CONSTITUTION? ARISTOTLE: Question #7 In Politics Books 3 and 4‚ Aristotle analyzes different types of constitutions‚ identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each. Aristotle regards a "polity" as the best for of constitution. According to Aristotle‚ why is a polity the best type of constitution? What are the characteristics of a polity? What sorts of problems does it overcome? In a polity‚ whom would posses political power and why? What type of justice would
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Alienation‚ out group‚ rites of passage‚ hunting and gathering‚ oligarchy‚ coalition‚ power‚ authority‚ obedience‚ discovery‚ invention‚ culture shock‚ deviance‚ norms‚ values‚ machismo --- all of which are found in the paragraph below. Lord of the Flies not only serves as a great coming of age tale but also introduces many sociological concepts that can be exposed through the plot and characters within the movie/book. Like any coming of age tale there are rites of passage in which the boys experience
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which the virtues of thrift‚ industry‚ and progress would become the model characteristics of the South. However‚ the changes in the South from 1877-1900 reflected traditional attitudes and policies‚ such as power in the hands of a conservative oligarchy‚ the maintaining of agriculture over industry as the primary source of economics‚ and the return of white supremacy‚ rather than the vision of the New South. With the change in political power from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party in
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