The paper deals with technocracy as one of the ways to organize political life society and variants state system. analyzes concept provides an overview main classical concepts technocracy. It states that does not have unambiguous definition, but has three basic features. Classical relies on principle exclusivity ideal aristocratic rule laid down in Plato’s writings. describes a new -deliberativ...

In May 1561, King Philip II informed the town hall of Madrid that he had chosen their as site for his royal residence and court. That year, city was swiftly transformed into Catholic king’s court heart vast monarchy. It also became principal political cultural space nobility. Yet greatest noble houses, particularly those in Castile, were initially resistant to establishment a sedentary continue...

In this article, it is my intention to analyse two theoretical notions related space, namely Pierre Nora’s idea of the site memory and Gaston Bachelard’s thoughts on space house, as applied Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1945). I base analysis symbolic value English country house with regard interwar aristocracy upper classes depicted in novel; that is, a memory. consider point view three...

Many changes took place in the upper echelons of Lithuanian society at turn 18th and 19th centuries: a divide began to emerge between conservative aristocracy supporters Enlightenment ideas. The latter sought reforms, independence state progress society. former did not support changes, preserve structure society, often seeking politicians Russian Empire. It is important study only actions elite...

The article identifies and analyzes three main accusations leveled in the 2000s by Yemeni Government against Houthis: a desire to restore Imamate, gaining support from Iran conversion Twelver Shiism. It is shown that these are incorrect consequences of authorities’ discrimination policy practicing Zaydis especially sayyids — Zaydi religious “aristocracy”. demonstrated reestablishment theocratic...

Abstract In 594 BCE, the Athenian lawgiver Solon, called upon to resolve a deepening social crisis, introduced new constitution and mandated that in civil conflicts, no citizen is remain apathetic must take sides. Because law seemed support strife, it presents puzzle. The paper offers political economy rationale for Solon’s against neutrality, modeling conflict as rent-seeking competition. We d...

This study delineates the use of cultural hegemony in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities (1859) through the vantage points of Italian critic Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) who clarifies domination of the ruling class over ruled class. Cultural hegemony is the mastery of the middle class and governing groups among the lower divisions. Antonio Gramsci declares that the only means of keeping cult...

Humans have a long history of moving wildlife that over time has resulted in unprecedented biotic homogenization. It is, as a result, often unclear whether certain taxa are native to a region or naturalized, and how the history of human involvement in species dispersal has shaped present-day biodiversity. Although currently an eastern Palaearctic galliform, the black francolin (Francolinus fran...