Niccolò Machiavelli is viewed in the popular imagination as a sinister figure who dispensed cynical advice to ambitious politicians on how to achieve and exercise power. His reputation among scholars ...

Can a bad person be a good leader? Machiavelli may have an answer. What if a person is a good leader… and a bad person? In this episode of Crash Course Political Theory, we unpack that idea through ...

In Machiavelli’s Three Romes, Professor Vickie B. Sullivan explores Niccolò Machiavelli’s ideas by linking them with his three distinct visions of Rome: the Catholic Rome of his own age, pre-Christian ...

Machiavellian governance thrives in environments where people rely on patronage not merit, where the state is weak, not ...

In his book Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction, Quentin Skinner, perhaps the foremost contemporary scholar of modern republicanism, relates how the renowned republican thinker Niccolò Machiavelli, ...

The joke about political science is that it’s not about politics, and it’s not a science. This would have surprised Aristotle, the ancient inventor of the field, and Machiavelli, its modern reinventor ...

Even if 2020 felt apocalyptic, it is reasonable to think we have not yet hit rock bottom. The threat of climate disaster and resource wars, the building of walls and refugee camps, the exorbitant ...

On Dec. 10, 1513, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote his friend Francesco Vettori that he had finished a small book we call The Prince. It was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli died, and ...

Este artículo argumenta que entre el conjunto de emociones del paisaje político que Maquiavelo pinta a sus lectores, el miedo no sólo es la más prominente, sino la más vinculada con la virtù, el ...