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    Challenges→A despot who fully disposed of subjects arbitrarily would destroy the productive capacity and loyalty necessary for the regime's own survival.

    Some of history's longest-lasting despotisms (certain sultanates, dynastic autocracies) combined arbitrary rule with cultural/religious legitimacy that transcended rational calculation.

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    Arbitrary Rule(as a characteristic of despotism)
    Government decisions based on a ruler's personal whims or preferences rather than on consistent laws or fair principles.
    Dynastic Autocracy(as a historical example of despotism)
    A government where power is held by one person (an autocrat) and passes down through family members across generations.
    Rational calculation(as used in decision-making and strategy)
    Making a decision by carefully weighing the pros and cons using logic, rather than acting on emotion or intuition.
    Sultanate(as a historical example of despotism)
    A kingdom or empire ruled by a sultan (a Muslim ruler or king), especially the historical Ottoman Empire and similar Islamic dynasties.
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    A form of government in which a single person directs everything by his own will and caprice, without laws to check him
    legitimacy (political)(Used in the instrumentalist sense by Arneson and Wall)
    The property of political institutions and their decisions that is determined by how closely those institutions approximate an independently specified ideal, such as an ideal egalitarian distribution.

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