This article draws on Max Weber’s account of legitimate authority to argue that there are three key mechanisms that drive the personalization of power in political regimes: the mobilization of char...

Access and manipulate most standard scholarly measures of democracy - xmarquez/democracyData

Access and manipulate most standard scholarly measures of democracy - xmarquez/democracyData

Samantha and guest Professor Xavier Márquez talk the nature of non-democratic politics, and why the concept of "personalism" is the key to understanding the dynamics and dysfunctions of the second Tru...

The three primary risk vectors of the second Trump administration.

Archives a large number of democracy datasets, many of historical interest. It also provides a number of functions to download these datasets (where available) and determine membership of a country in...

Archives a large number of democracy datasets, many of historical interest. It also provides a number of functions to download these datasets (where available) and determine membership of a country in...

It is a fine convention to treat the University of Bologna as the first, degree-granting university in the modern sense that has stayed in continuous operation (see, for example, Wikipedia).

The three primary risk vectors of the second Trump administration.

Week 1

Reading Aloys Winterling’s entertaining revisionist biography of Caligula (which combines my interests in crazy dictatorships and the class...

This article draws on Max Weber’s account of legitimate authority to argue that there are three key mechanisms that drive the personalization of power in political regimes: the mobilization of char...

Ancient Tyranny and Modern Dictatorship

This article draws on Max Weber’s account of legitimate authority to argue that there are three key mechanisms that drive the personalization of power in political regimes: the mobilization of char...

It matters whether you think his approach is transactional or personalist

This article draws on Max Weber’s account of legitimate authority to argue that there are three key mechanisms that drive the personalization of power in political regimes: the mobilization of char...

This paper draws on Max Weber's account of legitimate authority to argue that there are three key mechanisms that drive the personalization of power in politica

This paper draws on Max Weber's account of legitimate authority to argue that there are three key mechanisms that drive the personalization of power in politica

Political thought has long identified demagogic leadership as one of the key pathologies of democracy. Unusually among political thinkers, Max Weber not only ac...

This is the the fourth part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Ov...