Word: dynasticism
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There is something even more pernicious about family time in American politics, however, than mere hypocrisy and illogic. The obsession with the politician and his family is antidemocratic. It promotes the idea of dynastic politics. Bush arranged for his son to cast the vote that officially gave him the Republican...
There is an inherent uneasiness in all dynastic succession. Bush embraced the true conservative faith late in life, and purists still question his ideological pedigree. He fully understands that he must woo the national electorate as a man of the future rather than the past, which is why he declared...
In a book of almost unbounded scope, Kennedy follows the sweep of diplomatic-military history from the dynastic struggles of 16th century Europe to the superpower competition of today. Kennedy's tale of the rise and fall of Great Powers is an uncontroversial one which relies heavily on other historians...
KENNEDY immediately sets out to prove his thesis by plunging into the dynastic struggles of the Habsburgs in 17th century Europe. Spain, thanks to her veteran infantry and American gold, tried to achieve European hegemony, but failed when she could not organize her resources successfully. Next came France's turn...
There are actually few things less new than the "new history." Its arrival was announced at least as far back as 1912, by James Harvey Robinson, who declared that "trifling details" of dynastic wars must be displaced by the chronicle of the "common man," and that such chronicles should rely...