Author: Hiba Aftab Ansari

Statesmanship is an art requiring careful and planned management of the State affairs. Who we give this power to needs to master it before coming to rule. But who is this person? In democracy, it is whoever WE elect, in monarchy, it is the hereditary monarch, in oligarchy, it is a few in shared power, in anarchy, it is no one, and so on. Every form of Government is good as well as bad; the ruler needs to plot out which set-up will work the best for their State. For Plato (428/ 427 BCE – 348/ 347 BCE), an ancient Greek philosopher, this best set-up was Aristocracy (“Aristos” meaning “best” and “Kratos” meaning “rule,” therefore, the “rule by the best”), where a selected few with…