Research Case: Why Must a New Regime Deal with the People, Names, Property, and Rituals of the Old Regime?

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

Research Case: Why Did the Right of Appeal Protect the People and Prevent Public Officials from Becoming Kings?

A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 2 1. Question Why did the right of appeal function both as protection of the people’s rights and as a system that prevented public officials from becoming kings? In Livy’s History of Rome, Book 2, Rome expels the kings and tries to establish republican freedom … Read more

Research Case: What Effect Did the Two Consuls Have as a Mutual-Checking Mechanism against Concentration of Authority?

A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 2 1. Question In OS Organizational Design Theory, what effect did the two consuls have as a mutual-checking mechanism against the concentration of authority? In Livy’s History of Rome, Book 2, Rome expels the kings and develops the institutions of the Republic. One of the … Read more

Research Case: Why Must a Free Republic Control Authority Itself, Instead of Expecting Good Rulers?

A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 2 1. Question Why must a free republic control authority itself through terms of office, multiple consuls, and the right of appeal, instead of expecting good rulers? Livy’s History of Rome, Book 2 describes how Rome expelled the kings and formed the Republic. However, the … Read more

Research Case: Why Was the Expulsion of the King Not Enough to Establish a Free State?

A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 2 1. Question Why was the expulsion of the king not enough to establish a free state? Why did Rome need to combine authority control, law, appeal, the senate, popular integration, and a reward-punishment system? Livy’s History of Rome, Book 2 describes the period after … Read more

Research Case: Why Can the End of Monarchy Be Read Not as Failure, but as the Result of an OS That Was Effective in One Phase Becoming Unfit for the Next Phase?

A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 1 1. Research Question Why can the end of monarchy be read not as failure, but as the result of an OS that was effective in one phase becoming unfit for the next phase? Livy’s History of Rome, Book 1 describes the rise, development, and … Read more

Research Case: Why Is a Regime Already Collapsed When Trust Is Lost, Even If Its Institutions Still Remain?

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

Research Case: Why Does Regime Change Occur Not as an Ideal Choice, but as a Limit Reaction When a Community Can No Longer Survive?

A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 1 1. Research Question Why does regime change occur not as a calm choice of an ideal system, but as a limit reaction when a community feels that it can no longer survive under the existing system? Livy’s History of Rome, Book 1 describes the … Read more

Research Case: Why Does the Late Crisis of Monarchy Appear Not as the Problem of One Tyrant, but as a Compound Failure of House Networks, Approval Systems, and Upper-Layer Order?

A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 1 1. Question Why does the late crisis of monarchy appear not as the problem of one tyrant, but as a compound failure of house networks, approval systems, and upper-layer order? 2. Abstract The late crisis of monarchy appears not as the problem of one … Read more

Research Case: Why Is Rule by Fear Effective in the Short Term, but Destructive to the Legitimacy of the Regime in the Long Term?

A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 1 1. Question Why is rule by fear effective in the short term, but destructive to the legitimacy of the regime in the long term? 2. Abstract Rule by fear is effective in the short term, but it destroys the legitimacy of the regime in … Read more