Written by GreekBoston. When most people think about the structure of government in Ancient Greece, they may believe that it was a democracy, or that Ancient Greece was broken up by city-states. To some extent, these things are true. After the Greek Dark Ages, the population in that region scattered and the city-states arose sometime after that. Before Ancient Greece developed into the governments that existed later on, most of the areas were structured as oligarchies.
Although we know that there is a period of time where the oligarchies were extremely common in Ancient Greece, not much is known about them, especially early on. It has had a profound effect on civilizations across the world. Encyclopedic entry. A nation is a territory where all the people are led by the same government. Join our community of educators and receive the latest information on National Geographic's resources for you and your students. Skip to content. Image Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei At times, other nations refer to Iran as an oligarchy, a derogatory term for governments ruled by a few individuals.
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The book argues that oligarchs designed distinctive political institutions—such as intra-oligarchic power sharing, targeted repression, and rewards for informants—to prevent collective action among the majority population while sustaining cooperation within their own ranks.
To clarify the workings of oligarchic institutions, Simonton draws on recent social science research on authoritarianism. Like modern authoritarian regimes, ancient Greek oligarchies had to balance coercion with co-optation in order to keep their subjects disorganized and powerless. The book investigates topics such as control of public space, the manipulation of information, and the establishment of patron-client relations, frequently citing parallels with contemporary nondemocratic regimes.
Simonton also traces changes over time in antiquity, revealing the processes through which oligarchy lost the ideological battle with democracy for legitimacy. Classical Greek Oligarchy represents a major new development in the study of ancient politics. It fills a longstanding gap in our knowledge of nondemocratic government while greatly improving our understanding of forms of power that continue to affect us today.
They are influenced solely within the small group of people with whom the power is held. The most well-known example is the former Soviet Union. Other examples of oligarchy governments are found in the countries of China, North Korea, and Venezuela. Aristotle pioneered the use of the term as meaning rule by the rich, for which another term commonly used today is plutocracy. In the early 20th century Robert Michels developed the theory that democracies, as all large organizations, have a tendency to turn into oligarchies.
What are the 4 types of politics? Anthropologists generally recognize four kinds of political systems, two of which are uncentralized and two of which are centralized.
Uncentralized systems. Band society. Centralized governments. Supranational political systems. What are the 4 types of government? What are the four types of government oligarchy, aristocracy, monarchy, democracy? Who defeated Sparta? Sparta was the principal enemy of Athens during the Peloponnesian War between and BC , from which it emerged victorious.
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