Author: Clifford Bates

Clifford Bates is professor in the American Studies Center at Warsaw University in Warsaw, Poland and an instructor in the MA Diplomacy and International Relations program at Norwich University. Bates holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Aristotle's Best Regime (2003) and The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science (2016). Follow him on X @CliffordBates12.

The Great Inversion

When the Faithful Worship in Warehouses and the Heretics Inherit Cathedrals Something is badly, almost comically, wrong when the most […]

Clifford Bates 12.16.25 Culture

William Tyndale and Divine Right

Scripture, Obedience, and Authority The idea that monarchs rule by divine sanction, commonly referred to as the divine right of […]

Clifford Bates 11.18.25 State

From Consociatio to Subsidiarity

Johannes Althusius’s Politica and the Roots of Federal Pluralism In the landscape of early modern political theory, Johannes Althusius’s Politica […]

Clifford Bates 10.20.25 State