Aristotle’s Theory of Regime Change: A Reexamination of Politics 5.1-5.3

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https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.21.2024.90.01

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Metabole, stasis, Aristotle’s Politics, revolution, political change, factional conflict

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This paper offers a re-examination of Aristotle’s theory of metabole found in the first three chapters of Politics 5. I argue that Aristotle offers a general theory of political change, which highlights the logic and mechanism that will explain not only why regimes will change but also what are the causes and triggers for such change. This paper offers a re-reading of these three chapters showing that what is being addressed here is much more dynamic and useful to contemporary scholars of political science than most presentations of these chapters present.

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  • Clifford Angell Bates, Jr - Uniwersytet Warszawski

    Since 2002 has been University Professor in the American Studies Center at Warsaw University in Warsaw Poland. Since 2004, he has been an Instructor in the MA Diplomacy and International Relations program at Norwich University, Northfield Vermont. Bates holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Aristotle’s Best Regime (LSU 2003) and The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science (WUW 2016). He is a political scientist, whose focus is the history of political philosophy and thought, with sub-specialisations in comparative politics, international relations, literature and politics, and American Constitutional Thought and Institutional History.

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„Aristotle’s Theory of Regime Change: A Reexamination of Politics 5.1-5.3”. 2024. Politeja 21 (3(90): 9-27. https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.21.2024.90.01.