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The conquest of the Khanate of Kazan' was a pivotal event in the development of Muscovy. Moscow gained possession over a previously independent political entity with a multiethnic and multiconfessional populace. The Muscovite political system adapted to the unique circumstances …

The dissertation examines the creation and expression of authority during the extension of Habsburg administration over the recovered territories of Hungary and Transylvania at the turn of the eighteenth century and relates these processes to the development of absolutism and th…

In the realm of political theory, absolutism has largely dictated the conception of bureaucratic duty. Thus the ideal has seen bureaucrats as bound to obey the dictates of the sovereign, usually seen as the body that makes law. Empirical approaches to public administration have,…