A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 3 1. Question Why did Rome need written law? This question is not only about why Rome needed laws. The deeper question is this: Why could the early Roman Republic no longer stabilize its rule only through custom, aristocratic discretion, self restraint of magistrates, and … Read more
A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 3 1. Question Why did Rome almost lose its freedom through the Decemvirs, who were created to write down the law, and yet manage to repair itself? This question is not only about why the Decemvirs failed. The deeper question is this: Why did an … Read more
A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 2 1. Question Why must a new regime deal with the people, names, property, and rituals of the old regime in order to become stable? In Livy’s History of Rome, Book 2, Rome expels the kings and forms the Republic. However, the establishment of a … Read more
A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 1 1. Research Question Why is a regime already collapsed in substance when Trust is lost, even if its institutions still remain? Livy’s History of Rome, Book 1 describes the rise and fall of the Roman monarchy. In the final phase of the monarchy, many … Read more
1. Question Why does the success or failure of governance depend not on the formal design of institutions themselves, but on the awareness of the actors who operate them? 2. Abstract A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) reading of Zhenguan Zhengyao shows that the success or failure of state governance is not determined simply by whether institutions … Read more
