rulership

The article is specifically about the leadership in question willingly attracting people to rule over rather than forcibly subjecting them to rulership.

It is terrible, but necessary if you do not want to live under the rulership of the most brutal.

A more authoritarian rulership in China with a democratic Taiwan as an alternative model is at odds.

They had to maintain their power through some combination of force, propaganda, and actual good rulership.

Arguably this faux democracy is even worse than the authoritarian rulership that peeps through the cracks.

How would you conclusively determine that the ruins of a city without writing indicate a lack of rulership or central authority?

There's zero conflict between democracy and the Bill of Rights that anti-populist rulership solves.

At the time of Nazi rulership in Germany concentration camps were 100% legal.

Terrorism is a method of rulership over publics, not a tactic of war.

If rulers are the worry (and, still talking in the realm of ideas), then capitalism fails at providing the greatest possible equitable division of rulership.

I notice this raises the question of the similarities or differences between hierarchies (of people, not html tags or whatever) and rulership.

I was under the impression that the Greeks leaned into a practice that was already well-established as part of rulership in the region.

Surely calling them "rulers" would, under your logic, push them further towards "rulership"?

Not that "rulership" is necessarily "achievement".

It conforms more to what people think of as "rulership," and it allows for "easy" "victories" that route around the long and clumsy process of legislation.

I don't know how one could argue that, e.g., releasing cables showing the Afghanistan war is "unwinnable" (a la Daniel Ellsberg), showing the deep hypocrisy and corruption of many governments (e.g., the Saudi rulership), and the bullying of all sorts of governments into falling in line with American military and economic interests isn't a "good".

That said, the original Northwest European territory of the Merovingians-Carolingians had a strong political connection to Roman Imperial Rulership.