Such states are often controlled by a few prominent families who typically pass their influence from one generation to the next, but inheritance is not a necessary condition.
[Answer] and totalitarian societies generally employ political propaganda to decrease the influence of proponents of alternative governing systems.
It has the advantages of continuity of the concentration of power and wealth and predictability of who controls the means of governance and patronage.
It might be seen as a republican form of enlightened despotism.
An ecclesiocracy is a situation where the religious leaders assume a leading role in the state, but do not claim that they are instruments of divine revelation.
Leadership skills would be selected on the basis of specialized knowledge and performance, rather than parliamentary skills.
For example, many juntas adopt titles, such as “National Redemption Council', “Committee of National Restoration', or “National Liberation Committee'.
In other words, the government controls elections so that the people can exercise all their rights without truly changing public policy.
Most anthropologists hold that there are no known anthropological societies that are unambiguously [adjective], but some authors believe exceptions may exist or may have.
[Answer] holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary and harmful.
[Answer] theory is largely the work of David Ronfeldt, who published several papers on the theory.
[Answer] applies to predominantly pre-industrial, non-urbanized demographics.
There is an element of punning in the expression, involved in that blanda replaces dura, meaning 'hard'.
The most common definition of [answer] conceptualizes merit in terms of tested competency and ability, and most likely, as measured by IQ or standardized achievement tests.
However, some advocates of [answer] also support State-provided fire departments, prisons, legislatures and an executive.
[Answer] is synonymous in meaning and usage to the modern, informal term 'mobocracy', which arose in the 18th century as a colloquial neologism.
The opposite of [answer] is thalassocracy (maritime empires), although in the pure type of a particular state is rarely observed.
The ideology of an [answer] presents itself as an absolute, universal, and supreme system for understanding social life, similar to the position of a god in monotheism.
[Answer] first became a distinct political movement during the Age of Enlightenment, when it became popular among philosophers and economists in the Western world.
These market-based ideas and the policies they inspired constitute a paradigm shift away from the post-war Keynesian consensus which lasted from 1945 to 1980.
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