In much of political discourse across the globe, references to absolutism or over concentration of political power in a single potentate often adopt the 17th century King Louis XIV of France as a ...

Within a nation-state, the governing principle was that of absolutism in which the ruler/king/queen, called the sovereign, was unquestionable. The logic of absolutism was that unquestionability ...

In 2014, billionaire Nick Hanauer warned in Politico that “The Pitchforks Are Coming … For Us Plutocrats.” He argued that extreme inequality inevitably leads to revolution, comparing it to bankruptcy ...