Political Science · Comparative Political Analysis
Patrimonial regimes are autocratic or oligarchic and exclude which among the following from power?
AThe lower, middle and upper classes ✓ Correct
BMobilized modern systems based on structuration
CPrimitive bands
DNone of these
Correct answer: (A) The lower, middle and upper classes — Patrimonial regimes exclude the lower, middle and upper classes from power, so the answer is that option.
Explanation
★Patrimonial regimes exclude the lower, middle and upper classes from power, so the answer is that option.
★In a patrimonial regime the ruler treats the state as personal property.
★Power flows from the ruler and his personal household and followers.
★The broad social classes have no real share in authority.
★Loyalty to the ruler, not class or merit, gives access to power.
★So such regimes shut the wider classes out of power.
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