Oligarchy

there is a possibility that the rulers might cater their self-interest over common interest. Kingship turns to tyranny when degenerated, aristocracy turns to oligarchy and democracy is known to be the perversion of constitutional government of many. It is said that democracy is the rule of the poor who work for the interests of the needy, Oligarchy is the rule of the rich where the rulers take their interests into considerations. Tyranny on the other hand is to prevent monarchy, so that every…

The English word "politics" is derived from the Greek word polis. In meaning, a polis was the Greek’s political standpoint and community in which they lived. The polis or was the most important form of committee that dominated the Mediterranean world for 1300 years from 750 BCE to 500 CE. In practice a polis was an autonomous group of Greeks with its own citizen army its own set of laws and its own specific gods. So what did it mean to be a Greek who lived in a polis? Well, it meant many…

European social class by creating the middle (proletariat) class. Aristotle believes that if the poor have too much power we are considered to live in a democracy and if the wealthy have too much power we are said to have an oligarchy. Was the middle class only created to offset oligarchy and democracy? In a way, it seems that is its initial purpose, but it is not relevant today as it was during Aristotle’s time because technology altered society as a whole. Will we ever have a strong middle…

patterned after the Constitution of the United States. It included the separation of powers, checks, and balances, and the right to own individual property. In 1954 Urquiza was elected president. From 1852 to 1916 Argentina was ruled by a liberal oligarchy that was fraught with corruption, fraud. However, its economic prosperity was enhanced with advances in cattle production and agriculture. In 1910 Buenos Aires was termed as being the Paris of South America from its great influx of European…

Oligarchy is described as a group of individuals who have high influence in political power based on their economic power. The idea behind an oligarchy is to wipe clean debt of individual’s that was far too big to ever be repaid. It would go in the oligarchy’s hands so that the state would not become involved to reinstate the debt. An oligarchy is predominantly used in poor countries, but it is also seen in the United States. The most notorious of oligarchies in the US is that of…

Greece, Athens and Sparta operated very differently. Sparta’s government was very stable throughout its history as its military power was the staple of their culture. Athen’s government went through numerous stages as they went from a monarchy to an oligarchy, which then became tyrannous and eventually evolved into the great Athenian democracy we all know today. Both states helped develop the systems we now live through today, and impact that lies hidden through…

Plato retained strong opinions on the importance of philosophers in a utopian society. Carefully laying out pieces of his idea of a just city, Plato places the philosophers as the leaders. As he explains, a city will fall into any number of temptations if it lacks philosophers, those who understand they know nothing and still strive to achieve true knowledge. Correctly, he states that without a moral foundation this ideal city inevitably crumbles into dust, like so many other cities before it.…

Nowadays, an increasing numbers of Americans are arguing that whether U.S should carry out direct democracy to replace representative democracy in U.S government system or not. Direct democracy means people vote for what they want and they do not need a government to interfere with the issues of their nation. However, I think direct democracy cannot be put into practice in the United State. If a nation is without a government, it will be anarchy and chaos. Some negative effects will appear in…

consisted in racial discrimination towards black people, bringing consequences such as racial division on the society and class inequality. However, racial discrimination did not exclusively brought capitalism towards Black Detroiters lives, but also oligarchy played a role. In the 1940s, Detroit’s economy boomed, becoming the 4th largest industrial job market in the country, attracting not exclusively workers across the country, but the world (Sugrue 19). Unfortunately, this would last long,…

Ancient Greece is an interesting case study on the roots of the concept of democracy. Ancient Greece was radically different than all other forms of government known at the time. It represents an interesting microcosm of unique historical factors and it produces some of the greatest and most time-honored thinkers of all time. Two of these philosophers were Plato (427 B.C.E- 347 B.C.E) and Aristotle (384 B.C.E- 322 B.C.E). Both of these theorists were among the greatest political thinkers of…