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Criticism of the Netherlands monarchy has been on the rise in recent years, with notable shifts in public opinion and legal challenges aimed at reducing the king's powers. According to a survey, support for the monarchy as an institution has decreased, with a notable decline in the percentage of people in favor of the royal family.
The abolition of an absolute monarchy in favour of limited government under a constitutional monarchy is a less radical form of anti-monarchism that has succeeded in some nations that still retain monarchs, such as Sweden, Spain, and Thailand.
A 2021 poll by YouGov found that 5% of Americans would consider it a good thing for the United States to have a monarchy (7% support among men and 4% support among women), with 69% answering that it would be a bad thing. In the YouGov poll, African-Americans were most likely to answer positively in favor of a monarchy at 10% support. [19]
Serious concerns over racism within the monarchy have hit the headlines once again, with the Prince of Wales’s godmother – a key royal aide for decades – resigning over remarks made to a ...
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty The shock and horror professed by so many white people at the latest royal racism controversy is not shared by many Black people. For us, there is only ...
If it ain’t broke, future generations should think twice before trying to fix it – otherwise, one day, we could potentially end up with some very undesirable consequences, writes David Keys
A hereditary monarchy has been argued to be a more effective leadership selection process when communication was costly in pre-modern era. The spread of mass communication is argued to increase the efficiency of democratic forms for resolving the coordination problem of government.
King Charles’s own sister, Princess Anne, said it herself: A slimmed-down monarchy (aka a much smaller group of family members dominating the royal spotlight) “doesn’t sound like a good idea