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PARLIAMENTARIANISM AND ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM
Absolutism and Parliamentarianism
absolute monarchies
legitimised by an ideology that supported superiority of the king
characteristics
growning centralisation of political and administrative decisions
permanent army under the orders of the king
marginalisation of the courts and parliaments structured in states
parliamentary monarchies
developed institutional and legal systems that controlled monarch power
made up of landowners, local corporation and wealthy clasees
18th centrury mark the end of the Modern ager and the beggining of the Contemporary age
parliamentary republican political systems
governed by members of nobility and wealthy middle classes
elected by local assembles
governed in Holly Roman Empire and Italian Peninsula
characteristics
achieved high economic levels
cuutral development
inhabitants enjoyed certain individual freedmos
absolute monarchies and parlamentary monarchies were political models of 17th century.
Enlightened despotism
characteristics
was a variant of absolutism
incorprated trickledown reforms, but they didn't decrease absolute power
was implemented in middle of the 18th centrury
important enlightment thinkers works as ministers of monarchs
job was to rationalise how they functioned to improve
institutional bodies
administrative bodies
monarchs tought enlightment ideas of universal progress and happines
help them govern more efficiently and legitimise power
academies where in charge of carrying studies and projects
were in the interest of desportic goverments
cathering the great
empress of Russia between 1762-1796
exapmle of enlightned despotism
