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Old World Empires - Cultures of Power and Governance in Eurasia (Paperback)
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Old World Empires - Cultures of Power and Governance in Eurasia (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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This book is a sweeping historical survey of the origins,
development and nature of state power. It demonstrates that Eurasia
is home to a dominant tradition of arbitrary rule mediated through
military, civil and ecclesiastical servants and a marginal
tradition of representative and responsible government through
autonomous institutions. The former tradition finds expression in
hierarchically organized and ideologically legitimated continental
bureaucratic states while the latter manifests itself in the state
of laws. In recent times, the marginal tradition has gained in
popularity and has led to continental bureaucratic states
attempting to introduce democratic and constitutional reforms.
These attempts have rarely altered the actual manner in which power
is exercised by the state and its elites given the deeper and
historically rooted experience of arbitrary rule. Far from being
remote, the arbitrary culture of power that emerged in many parts
of the world continues to shape the fortunes of states. To ignore
this culture of power and the historical circumstances that have
shaped it comes at a high price, as indicated by the ongoing
democratic recession and erosion of liberal norms within states
that are democracies.
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