Dye A Logue

A personal exploration of ideas, questions, attempts at answers, and hopefully some dialogue. Dye – To change the colour of something. Origin Old English dēagian (verb), signifying to me a different perspective. Logue – discourse of a specified type : dialogue. Origin from French -logue, from the Ancient Greek – logos.

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When Power is held by an Elite

By kengele

When power is held by a select few – Oligarchy, Military Dictatorship (Junta), Theocracy and Plutocracy. Oligarchy An Oligarchy is when the state is ruled by a select group of people, and where the general public have very limited or no influence on that selection. Either there is no election, or there is limited candidacy for

05/08/201511/10/2021

When Power is held by an Individual

By kengele

When power is held by an individual – Autocracy, Dictatorship, Monarchy Dictatorship A dictatorship refers to states ruled by an individual (who did not inherit the position) as occurred in some Greek states, including Athens for a few years. Ancient Republican Rome had a tradition of accepting a dictator for limited periods of time in