As a political belief system, anarchy breaks roughly into two separate schools of thought. One rejects all government authority in favor of a belief in the individual's liberty and the right to self-govern. The other rejects government authority in favor of a belief in collectivism or the prim...
Anarchy is a situation in which a government either does not exist or has no authority or control over the people. The philosophy of anarchism suggests that societies can survive and thrive only when operating under alternatives to traditional government rule. While often misused in describing a st...
1530s, "absence of government," from Frenchanarchieor directly from Medieval Latinanarchia, from Greekanarkhia"lack of a leader, the state of people without a government" (in Athens, used of the Year of Thirty Tyrants, 404 B.C., when there was noarchon), abstract noun fromanarkhos"ruler...
Often disenchantment with government follows as a country falls into anarchy. There are historical antecedents to the creation of this type of risk. Banking in developing economies contends with political realities that rub off on the economy. Thus bank managements should always accurately read and ...
Campbell argues that "Since it can be pretty fairly shown that any form of government—from pure anarchy through absolute tyranny, with every possible shading in between—will yield Utopia provided the rulers are wise, benevolent, and competent, the place to start engineering of Utopia is with ...
When a nation adopts a type of government, the factors taken into consideration include the social and economic conditions of that country. Hence, countries that have Anarchy as their form of government, have found it beneficial in improving the social and economic conditions prevalent there. You ...
consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of the love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this proposition....
Anthony de Jasay is among the most important social thinkers of our time. His oeuvre offers a sustained critique of government and its defenders. In the book Ordered Anarchy: Jasay and His Surroundings, colleagues and friends pay tribute to the man in the form of an inspiring collection of ...
of the assumption of anarchy in international relations and its principal derivatives and ingredients, namely, that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the absence of a `world government' and the `reign of anarchy'; that world politics is more anarchic than domestic politics; and that ...
A form of government where sovereignty is embodied by a single ruler in a state and his high aristocracy representing their separate divided lands within the state and their low aristocracy representing their separate divided fiefs. Usage notes Historically refers to a wide variety of systems with...