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Caesarism
Political philosophy inspired by Caesar
In political science, the term Caesarism identifies and describes an authoritarian, populist, and autocratic ideology inspired by Julius Caesar, the leader of Rome, from 49 BC to 44 BC.[1][2]
History
The German historian Johann Friedrich Böhmer first used the term Caesarism in , to describe the state's political subordination of the Roman Catholic Church.[1] Published in , Auguste Romieu's L'ère des Césars defined Caesarism as the military rule and régime of a warlord, and "following Romieu's polemic, 'Caesarism' quickly gained vogue status."[1] In , the religious writer Orestes Brownson used the term Caesarism to mean rule and régime of absolute monarchy.[1] In , the mainstream usage of the term occurs in a Westminster Review article of political criticism about the "clumsy eulogies of Caesarism as [being] incarnate in the dynasty of Bonaparte".[1]
