DBAHC republics make a comeback

There were lots of republics in the western world in classical times, and you also got some in the middle ages, but after 1500 they tended to disappear in favor of monarchies. How can you get more republics in the present day than just Venice and Switzerland?
 
There were lots of republics in the western world in classical times, and you also got some in the middle ages, but after 1500 they tended to disappear in favor of monarchies. How can you get more republics in the present day than just Venice and Switzerland?

Well, it's kind of a complicated question, but honestly, if there's any one thing.....if the spectacular failure of the Polish Republic had not occurred in the 1580s, it might have gone a long way to prevent the Colonial Age downfall of republicanism, as it was actually working fairly well prior to the Warsaw Tragedy in 1577, as modern historians would call it. And perhaps there would be wouldn't be quite so few bonafide republics.(The former English colony of New Caledonia, from where I myself come from, claims to be a republic of a kind, but the Caesar, although elected democratically, is essentially a monarch in all but name otherwise.)
 
Tbh most monarchs today are more like enarchs (one ruler) or protarchs (first ruler) than sole rulers. I think it would be much easier to get nonhereditary rulers than the council or polyarchy of modern republics we have in Venice and Switzerland. Venice even once actually had an elected monarch in its Doge.
 
You'd probably need more micro-states : the downfall of ancient Republics like Rome is often tied to their sheer size and the conflicts between growing bureaucracy and military power.
Maybe if the Holy Roman Empire reforms of the XVth century fails, you might end up with Germany looking like Italy, and without a strong imperial power to distribute titles and honors as they did in the peninsula, both Italian and German states could have kept/adopted republican regimes eventually. After all,it's what happen for Switzerland.
But unification and centralisation of bureaucratic states make monarchical (up to reasons, as @CaliBoy1990 said) polities more likely to blossom. For entities like France or Burgundy maybe some extended regency where the Parliments/Estates/etc. end up to manage administration could lead to an "uncrowned kingdom", a republic in fact?
 
What if there was a philosophical movement against monarchism?
Well, you obviously have societist movements which are (with some exceptions, but extremely minoritary) exclusively republican, but apart from maintaining the Balkanic Societist Federation alive, I'm not sure that's what the OP went for.
You could, technically, have a renew of moderate/liberal republicanism in the Romantic era, with a mix of Rousseauism and Parlementarian opposition. I'm not sure how this would touch the rural middle-classes before parlementarian monarchism becomes widespread.
 
Well, there was that oddity in the English Revolution, that fell apart. Apparently they had some pretty radical people in there before Cromwell overthrew it to establish the Cromwell Dynasty.

Why not either have that Parliament survive, or (more radically), the Diggers? They were IIRC agrarian rural republicans. That could become a functioning republic if it had a strong leader they could all choose.
 
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