Jonathan S Doucette
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Jonathan S Doucette
@jdoucette.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Aalborg University. My research examines religion, historical regimes, state formation, and democratization.
Personal website: https://t.co/M1J5XAy13P
The article was greatly inspired by @essobecker.bsky.social r.bsky.social Yuan Hsiao, Steven Pfaff and @jaredcrubin.com's article on Luther journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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September 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
We use Gregory's letters to capture his influence network. Next, we demonstrate that letter-receiving towns introduced self-government earlier and to a larger extent than towns outside of Gregory's network
September 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
We argue that Gregory, as part of his papal revolution, built alliances with pious townsmen across Italy, Germany, France and the Low Countries to push his reform program. To impose reforms on unreformed lord-bishops, townsmen had to take political power and institute self-government.
September 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reposted by Jonathan S Doucette
The family became afflicted with the disease of dynasties: inheritance by babies and buffoon, or both
That would normally be the death nail for a noble House, but not this time. The Estates of Württemberg stepped in to protect the state, deposed buffoons and ruledon behalf of the babies. (2/3)
May 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
That might be more of a feature of city-states (in a relative stateless environment) than democracy per say. Warfare was also frequent in medieval communes (see, e.g., Epstein 2000 "The rise and fall of Italien city-states")
April 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Stort tillykke!
April 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Dont know that current events aren't similarly negative with regards to democracy
April 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Based on similar "laws", no democratic breakdown can happen after 60 years of competitive elections or at the level of economic development attained by the US..
April 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Cool paper!
April 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM