Apparently, this is how it goes. I found a website that has a nice synopsis of Plato's Republic.
So, the order is:
- Monarchy/Aristocracy (a government based on wisdom)
- Timocracy (a government based on honor and merit; like a military)
- Oligarchy (a government based on wealth; a capitalist state)
- Democracy/Anarchy (a government based on liberty and equality)
A Mixed Republic is the most stable allowing "sub systems" of Democracy and others to thrive.
So, I wonder if those countries that have preserved their Aristocracy in some form (becoming a subsystem of a Republic) may be stable-forming influence. Just a guess.
Countries like Hungary have been whipsawed from one form of government to another. Reading just a little bit of their history in Wikipedia new governments were a way of life!
I'm hoping America's mix of representative Republic and State Government will be good.
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