10.5281/zenodo.5721848
https://zenodo.org/records/5721848
oai:zenodo.org:5721848
Szelenyi, Ivan
Ivan
Szelenyi
0000-0003-0520-2552
Yale University
Mihályi, Péter
Péter
Mihályi
0000-0002-8563-6950
Corvinus University, Budapest
The six competing types of domination in the early 21st century: Towards a new Weberian taxonomy
Zenodo
2021
third wave of democratization
Weber's systems of domination
liberalism
illiberalism
conservativism
democracy
2021-11-23
eng
10.5281/zenodo.5721847
This paper follows Weber’s interpretative sociology in trying to identify the various systems of domination in the 21st century. Our aim is to describe the “actually existing” systems: liberalism, conservativism, illiberalism, authoritarianism, dictatorship, and despotism. While the lifespan of various systems of domination may vary, there is no one-way progress-regress among these systems, and most actually existing systems are hybrids and have features from one or the other. There is not one which can imply the end “of history”. History rather moves in a cyclical way back-and forth between various system of domination.