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The resulting gain in understanding regime change and stability indicates that regions dominated by authoritarian regimes can assume a more prominent place in....
In this chapter, we subject the comparative evidence regarding the weak democracy syndrome to closer scrutiny by selecting individual.
Gabriel Naudé -a librarian and a libertin between the Huguenot Wars and the Enlightenment
ARTIKKELI Gabriel Naudé – a librarian and a libertin between the Huguenot Wars and the Enlightenment Vesa Suominen Oulun yliopisto sohveli@ The article suggests a perspective for considering the tension between (i) the authoritarian – perhaps even in a sense 'Machiavellian' – political ideas of Gabriel Naudé in Considerations politiques sur coups d'etat, on one hand, and (ii) his at least assumingly liberal ideas of the library in Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque.
The study starts from the review of the frame constituted by Naudé's personality and political thought, which we, in turn, could best understand in the light of his own time and the history before him, including the history of political thought and particularly the aftermath of the French wars of religion (so-called Huguenot Wars) in the sixteenth century.
The person of Naudé thus conceived of together with some de
