Answer to Question #308883 in Political Science for Rockstar

Question

Explain Aristotle’s SIX (6) constitutions in order of good and bad.

Answer 1

Aristotle ranks these six forms of constitutions in order from best to worst; kingship, aristocracy, polity, democracy, oligarchy, tyranny. Kingship and tyranny both involve the rule of one man however they don’t share any other similarities. On one hand under kingship a king looks after the interests of his subjects and exercises his power on willing subjects based on law whereas tyranny is the opposite, a tyrant looks after his own interests and exerts power through force on unwilling subjects.

Oligarchy is a system of government whereby the few wealthy people rule the country. Here too there are different kinds of oligarchy, the first is where there is a property qualification. This property qualification is not high but means that only those who acquire property can have a share in government.