{"id":6059,"date":"2011-06-22T19:51:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6059"},"modified":"2011-06-22T19:51:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:51:50","slug":"millet-systems-are-stable-relatively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/millet-systems-are-stable-relatively\/","title":{"rendered":"Millet systems are stable (relatively)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comment <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/18\/liberal-orientalism\/comment-page-1\/#comment-22552\">below<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Furthermore, Millet systems are extremely unstable, to say the least. There being a reason there\u2019s no longer any Ottoman or Austro-Hungarian empires.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I take a different lesson. The Ottoman Empire and Austro-Hungary (if you include its de facto predecessor the Hapsburg Empire in its longevity) were <b>extremely<\/b> stable. Their institutional lives extended for ~500 years (lopping off the initial periods when both state systems were compact). The American system is only a few decades over 200, and it is has the longest continuous history as a liberal democracy in the world today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment below: Furthermore, Millet systems are extremely unstable, to say the least. There being a reason there\u2019s no longer any Ottoman or Austro-Hungarian empires. I take a different lesson. The Ottoman Empire and Austro-Hungary (if you include its de facto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/millet-systems-are-stable-relatively\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[807],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6060,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions\/6060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}