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 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
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
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
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
A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 1 1. Question Why are the census and property classification not only tools for taxation and conscription, but also technologies by which the state recognizes itself? 2. Abstract The census and property classification are not only tools for taxation and conscription. They are technologies by … Read more
A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 1 1. Question Why does a growing state need records, classifications, order, and mobilization tables rather than heroes? 2. Abstract As a state grows, it needs records, classifications, order, and mobilization tables rather than heroes because the number of policies and the volume of objects … Read more
A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 1 1. Question Why is a state that can integrate foreign groups into its institutions stronger in the long term than a state that excludes them? 2. Abstract A state that can integrate foreign groups into its institutions is stronger in the long term than … Read more
A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 1 1. Question Why are asylum, marriage, civic integration, and colonization not separate policies, but parts of the same integration OS? 2. Abstract Asylum, marriage, civic integration, and colonization are not separate policies. They are parts of the same integration OS because all of them … Read more
A Three-Layer Analysis (TLA) of Livy, History of Rome, Book 1 1. Question Why does the growth of Rome depend more on whom it integrates after conquest than on conquest itself? 2. Abstract The growth of Rome depends more on whom it integrates after conquest than on conquest itself because conquest is only the temporary … Read more
