Re: Ten Monarchies Survive In Europe

In article <vvv6m1pvbpmh5pqrcv4uvt82j90ioa7ttr@xxxxxxx>, Francois R. Velde
says...
>
>In medio alt.talk.royalty aperuit Guy Stair Sainty <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> os suum:
>>My point is not that monarchies are more successfully economically, but that
>>political stability, the rule of law and the removal of corruption are
>>absolutely essential ingredients for economic propserity. Monarchies have over
>>the long term more successfully given this necessary stability than republics
>>in Europe. The revolutions that overthrew the monarchies in every case produced
>>disastrous regimes which in most cases did not attain the same
>>standards of stability, rule of law, and lack of political and financial
>>corruption for decades.
>
>And I showed data that does not bear you out. Most of the monarchies that
>existed in 1900 in Europe failed to provide enough stability to ensure even
>their own survival, let alone prosperity. And the numbers I gave you show that
>there is no difference in the prosperity delivered by monarchies compared to
>republics over the course of a century.

But the instability of the majority - particularly the Balkan monarchies -
was predominately the fault of external forces; and these states which
had emerged from centuries of domination by Turkey had inevitably a long
way to go before finding any kind of enduring security. But surely the citizens
of all these countries were better off in every sense under their Monarchies
than under the post WWII communist republics?


--
Guy Stair Sainty
www.chivalricorders.org/index3.htm
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