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From my understanding, monarchy means "ruling of one"[0] and while people could belong to many groups, it seems as each group could be ruled by one. If I were
by jimkleiber 5y ago
From my understanding, monarchy means "ruling of one"[0] and while people could belong to many groups, it seems as each group could be ruled by one.
If I were to join many networks states, each which was ruled by one person, then I would just belong to multiple monarchies, I'd assume.
[0]: https://www.etymonline.com/word/monarchy#etymonline_v_17430 https://www.etymonline.com/word/monarchy#etymonline_v_17430
- DenisM 5y agoIs corporation a monarchy?
- jimkleiber 5y agoOoo, I don't know. I'd say in theory, no, at least for public corporations, as many have boards who ultimately decide who is the CEO. However, sometimes the CEO is the Chairman of the board and has a controlling share of the stocks (or votes) and yeah, may at least feel like a monarchy. I'm not too sure what the difference is between monarchy and authoritarian, I've often used the latter when looking at some companies. Others, however, can be much more democratic or else. Now I'm curious to see if there are any papers comparing company governance to nation governance using the same terms.
- DenisM 5y agoI was introduced to the concept by this book: https://www.amazon.com/Corporations-Examples-Explanations-Alan-Palmiter/dp/1454802472 https://www.amazon.com/Corporations-Examples-Explanations-Al... But it’s probably a lot more than you bargained for.
- jimkleiber 5y agoSweet, checking it out now. Although Amazon doesn't have a preview, Google Books does: https://books.google.com/books?id=VC8E5JOGC3QC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=VC8E5JOGC3QC&printsec=fron...
- DenisM 5y agoI hope that helps. The book was illuminating to me, despite it being a textbook for law students, which I never was.
- gfodor 5y agoAh fair. I guess I can’t know if the OP was pulling in an assumption that people would be tied to a single monarch, given historical monarchies were based on physical dominions.
- jimkleiber 5y agoAh yeah, fair point in that with monarchies in physical dominions, one is stuck. How I understood the author's blog posts is that one of benefits he proposes for a networked state is that with a virtual dominion, one could belong to many states at once, almost like having poly/plural citizenship. However, i took that to mean I could be joining many 1-person ultimately rules kingdoms at the same time, perhaps amidst oligarchies and democracies and such.