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PARLIAMENTARIANISM AND ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM
ABSOLUTISM AND PARLIAMENTARIANISM
Absolute monarchies
legitimised by an ideology that supported the superiority of the king's power over all others
Included a growing centralisation of political and administrative decisions
Parliamentary monarchies
developed institutional and legal systems
Parliamentary republican political systems
were governed by members of the nobility and wealthy middle class elected by local assemblies
achieved high levels of economic and cultural development
ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM
was a variant of absolutism that incorporated `"trickledown" reforms inspired by the Enlightenment
ADDITIONAL REFORMS
Economic reforms
increase income from royal estate
Political reforms
provincial government was reorganised
Regalist reforms
Were designed to gain privileges within the church
Catherine 'the great'
implemented the reformist ideas that strengthened her power
implemented reforms in central and provincial government
