Institutional Mechanisms of Autocracy Maintenance: the Case of the Genoese Republic on the Threshold of New Time

Institutional Mechanisms of Autocracy Maintenance:
the Case of the Genoese Republic on the Threshold of New Time




DOI: 10.17976/jpps/2006.03.04
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Makarenko S.A. Institutional Mechanisms of Autocracy Maintenance: the Case of the Genoese Republic on the Threshold of New Time . – Polis. Political Studies. 2006. No. 3. https://doi.org/10.17976/jpps/2006.03.04



Abstract

Applying a concrete historical example, the article retraces the working of one of institutional mechanisms making for the conservation of autocratic ways. On analyzing in detail the evolution of the Genoese Republic’s socio-political structure in the 11th to the 16th centuries, the author demonstrates that stability of autocratic regimes with a closed political class depends straight on their ability of creating mechanisms of integrating the most active members of alternative hierarchies. In case such mechanisms are available, autocratic regimes acquire firmness and steadiness and for their democratization, pressure from outside is required. According to the author’s conclusion, democratization of such regimes from inside is possible only in cases if the channels of absorption of the members of alternative hierarchies become “clogged”, when the ruling elite, failing to cope with growing social tension, finds itself compelled to make concessions.


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