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The novelty of Montesquieu’s definition of despotism

Author(s) -

Aleksandar Molnar

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

sociologija

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.174

H-Index - 8

eISSN - 2406-0712

pISSN - 0038-0318

DOI - 10.2298/soc1503401m

Subject(s) - politics , novelty , nothing , ruling class , simplicity , rank (graph theory) , law and economics , law , political science , philosophy , sociology , political economy , epistemology , mathematics , combinatorics , theology

Nowhere in his work Montesquieu did give a precise definition of despotism as one of three types of government. However, a number of places where Montesquieu wrote about despotism reveal a fairly consistent model based on five key principles: 1) the supremacy of only one (ruling) political force; 2) equality of subjects based on their nothingness; 3) simplicity of social structure (devoid of class and rank); 4) administrative distribution of only one (ruling) political force; as well as 5) metropolization as a consequence of homogenization policy of one (ruling) political force.

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