Monarki absolut nyaéta hiji wangun pamaréntahan monarki di mana saurang raja/ratu (atanapi pamingpin monarki kalawan gelar lianna) minangka otoritas pamaréntahan pangluhurna salaku pupuhu nagara jeung pupuhu pamaréntahan; kakawasaannana teu diwatesan ku undang-undang atanapi ku hukum. Saurang pamingpin absolut miboga kakiatan pulitik nu teu kawates kana nagara daulatnna jeung wargina. Pamingpin absolut lobana pamaréntahanna mangrupa héréditér (katurunan). Monarki absolut béda jeung monarki konstitusional, di mana otoritasna kawates ku undang-undang.

Conto monarki absolut kiwari

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Raja Abdullah ti Saudi Arabia
 
Paus Benediktus XVI
Nagara Pamingpin
  Brunéi Hassanal Bolkiah
  Oman Qaboos bin Said Al-Said
  Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
  Saudi Arabia Abdullah bin Abdulaziz
  Kota Vatikan Benediktus XVI

Pustaka

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  • Anderson, Perry. Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: Verso, 1974.
  • Kimmel, Michael S. Absolutism and Its Discontents: State and Society in Seventeenth-Century France and England. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1988.
  • Mettam, Roger. Power and Faction in Louis XIV's France. New York: Blackwell Publishers, 1988.
  • Miller, John (ed.). Absolutism in Seventeenth Century Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1990.
  • Wilson, Peter H. Absolutism in Central Europe. New York: Routledge, 2000.
  • Zmora, Hillay. Monarchy, Aristocracy, and the State in Europe - 1300-1800. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Tingali ogé

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