Oligarchy in Indonesia INTRODUCTION The word oligarchy originated from the Greek word oligarkhia‚ oligoi ‘few’ and arkhein ‘to rule’ which as a system refers to the politics of wealth defense by materially endowed actors. While oligarchs are actors who command and control massive concentrations of material resources that can be deployed to defend or enhance their personal wealth or exclusive social position. Oligarchs pose a problem as they are composed by extremely wealthy individuals‚ only
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Oligarchy by Alyssa Raulerson An oligarchy is a form of government where a small group of people rule. Oligarchy originates from Medieval Latin and Greek. Some examples of oligarchies include Sparta and modern-day Africa in the twentieth century. It is easy to see since the South African form of oligarchy was based on race. There are many forms of oligarchy‚ used all around the world. In the Spartan Oligarchy‚ twenty-eight men joined by two kings all over the age of 60 ruled. These groups of
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day members of an oligarchy have no truck with mere equality‚ and they all think they deserve unquestioned first place: whereas in a democracy the result of an election is easier to bear when the loser can console himself with the thought that he was not competing with his equals.1” The political views of Thucydides are not blatantly expressed to the reader‚ and are quite difficult to fully understand what his views are. But as explained by his quote‚ the differences of the oligarchy and the democracy
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During the Classical Age of Greece‚ two powerful city-states emerged‚ each governed by a different system. Athens was run by democracy‚ whereas‚ Sparta‚ a military state‚ was governed by oligarchy. Athens’ democracy served its people better. Since all had a say in the government and everyone was included in a state was ruled by many. In Sparta‚ the state was controlled by a select few‚ kings and ephors‚ who had absolute power. In Athens plenty of time was spent on architecture‚ to ensure that
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In Aristotle’s Politics‚ he focuses much on the regimes of an oligarchy and of a democracy. Democracies exists when the free and poor‚ being a majority‚ have authority to rule‚ and have an equal share in the city. Oligarchies exists when the few wealthy and better born have authority and grant benefits in proportion to a person’s wealth (1280a:10-30;1290a:5-10). Within each regime‚ there are the farmer‚ the working element and craftsmen‚ the marketing element and traders‚ the laboring element
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to study the ideal state‚ but the bad state as well‚ because sometimes the statesman has to work with what he has. Aristotle focuses on the oligarchy and the democracy and differences in the rich and poor. Of the four types of democracy the worst is the extreme from‚ where all offices are open to anyone‚ and people are the law. Of the four types of oligarchies‚ the worst is where offices are inherited‚ and the magistrates have no checks or balances. Of aristocracy there is only one form‚ where only
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Antidote for the Iron law of Oligarchy In every diseases there will always a doctors to help us to cure it. In every illness it has always a medicine to manage the pain. But if we connect it to our society today‚ maybe it doesn’t have medicine or doctors that cure this kind of illnesses. This kind of attitude maybe we cannot erase to our society. This attitude maybe we can connect to the iron law of oligarchy. What is the iron law of oligarchy? “The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory‚ first
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South America’s governments have long been run by military oligarchies. Did this benefit South America? Most South American countries were overthrown by the military and have long been ruled by the military to this very day. An oligarchy is understood as rule by the few‚ in this case‚ that few would be the military. Under these regimes‚ citizens enjoyed few if any civil liberties. With the military taking over‚ South American countries had developed arrangements for governing that allowed both
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Oligarchy isn’t beneficial to a country’s welfare In modern society is very popular to raise the most scandalous issues of the present‚ disclose famous politicians and high-ranked officials‚ we highlight the hidden truth of the power-driven machinations and governmental intrigues. Thankful to the magazine Forbes‚ which is well known for its rankings of world ’s top companies and lists of the richest people all over the world‚ we know them by sight. Many call these people wealthy‚ rich
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Although it was just a piece of junk‚ it was also solid proof that a time before the government took power existed. In an oligarchy as extreme as the one in 1984‚ having control of the people meant having control of every single aspect of their beings‚ including their recollections of their pasts. The government in the story brainwashed people into believing that this oligarchy was a good thing‚ and that this good thing had been around forever. Instead of letting people keep their own happy memories
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