{"id":91379,"date":"2020-10-17T00:59:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T21:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/study-finds-good-governments-fall-harder-than-dictatorships\/"},"modified":"2020-10-17T00:59:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T21:59:16","slug":"study-finds-good-governments-fall-harder-than-dictatorships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/study-finds-good-governments-fall-harder-than-dictatorships\/","title":{"rendered":"#Study finds \u2018good\u2019 governments fall harder than dictatorships"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Study finds \u2018good\u2019 governments fall harder than dictatorships<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Oh, how the mighty have fallen \u2026 and may fall again.<\/p>\n

A new historical review by anthropologists at Purdue University has revealed that \u201cgood\u201d governments \u2014 meaning those that supported social<\/a> programs and did not amass disproportionate wealth \u2014 suffered \u201cmajor\u201d collapse compared to more tyrannical regimes.<\/p>\n

The study examined 30 pre-modern societies, including the Roman Empire, China\u2019s Ming dynasty, India\u2019s Mogul empire and the Republic of Venice \u2014 all of which decidedly crumbled. But regardless of righteous leadership, researchers were \u201csurprised\u201d to find that more equitable societies fared no better in terms of perpetuity.<\/p>\n

\u201cPre-modern states were not that different from modern ones. Some pre-modern states had good governance and weren\u2019t that different from what we see in some democratic countries today,\u201d said Gary Feinman, curator of Chicago\u2019s Field Museum and author of the new study, in a statement on Phys.org<\/a>. \u201cThe states that had good governance, although they may have been able to sustain themselves slightly longer than autocratic-run ones, tended to collapse more thoroughly, more severely.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Daming Palace of the Ming dynasty, circa 15th century<\/span>Heritage Images via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A \u201cgood\u201d government, for the purposes of the study, is different from how modern citizens would define one, as they lacked \u201celectoral democracies\u201d at the time, said Feinman, whose work was published in Frontiers in Political Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t have elections, but they had other checks and balances on the concentration of personal power and wealth by a few individuals,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey all had means to enhance social well-being, [to provide] goods and services beyond just a narrow few, and means for commoners to express their voices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, they describe this as a vulnerability to historical leaders, such as Roman Emperor Commodus, whose noted disregard for governance undermined the \u201csocial contracts\u201d expected of more equitable governments. Rather than help repair the unstable state he inherited, he instead used his power to stoke his fame, posing as a gladiator instead of a ruler.<\/p>\n

Commodus was eventually assassinated, and the Roman Empire continued its downward spiral.<\/p>\n

Feinman recognizes parallels in global political shifts and unrest today.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I see around me feels like what I\u2019ve observed in studying the deep histories of other world regions, and now I\u2019m living it in my own life,\u201d said Feinman. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of like Groundhog Day for archaeologists and historians.\u201d<\/p>\n

He suggested societies learn from past mistakes, with the help of his colleagues\u2019 research.<\/p>\n

\u201cHistory has a chance to tell us something. That doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s going to repeat exactly, but it tends to rhyme. And so that means there are lessons in these situations.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Study finds \u2018good\u2019 governments fall harder than dictatorships” Oh, how the mighty have fallen \u2026 and may fall again. A new historical review by anthropologists at Purdue University has revealed that \u201cgood\u201d governments \u2014 meaning those that supported social programs and did not amass disproportionate wealth \u2014 suffered \u201cmajor\u201d collapse compared to more tyrannical regimes….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/democracies-65.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[75999,74106,76142,71511,5378,32681],"class_list":["post-91379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-16-20","tag-democracy","tag-dictators","tag-government","tag-history","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}