Author: Jakob Aall Ottesen LarsenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Representative Government in Greek and Roman History
Author: Jakob Aall Ottesen LarsenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Representative Government in Greek and Roman History
Author: J.A. O. LarsenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520319893
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
Representative Government in Greek and Roman History
Author: Jakob A. LarsenRepresentative Government in Greek and Roman History
Author: J. A. O. LarsenOrigins of Democracy in Ancient Greece
Author: Kurt A. RaaflaubPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520258096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
"A balanced, high-quality analysis of the developing nature of Athenian political society and its relationship to 'democracy' as a timeless concept."—Mark Munn, author of The School of History
Greek Federal States. Their Institutions and History
Author: Jakob Aall Ottesen LARSENPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
Democracy Ancient and Modern
Author: M. I. FinleyPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978802323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Leaders and followers -- Athenian demagogues -- Democracy, consensus and the national interest -- Socrates and after -- Censorship in classical antiquity.
Representative Democracy
Author: Nadia UrbinatiPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226842800
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
It is usually held that representative government is not strictly democratic, since it does not allow the people themselves to directly make decisions. But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine’s subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to be regarded as a fully legitimate mode of democratic decision making—and not just a pragmatic second choice when direct democracy is not possible. As Urbinati shows, the idea that representation is incompatible with democracy stems from our modern concept of sovereignty, which identifies politics with a decision maker’s direct physical presence and the immediate act of the will. She goes on to contend that a democratic theory of representation can and should go beyond these identifications. Political representation, she demonstrates, is ultimately grounded in a continuum of influence and power created by political judgment, as well as the way presence through ideas and speech links society with representative institutions. Deftly integrating the ideas of such thinkers as Rousseau, Kant, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Paine, and the Marquis de Condorcet with her own, Urbinati constructs a thought-provoking alternative vision of democracy.
The Life and Death of Democracy
Author: John KeanePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847377602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? How did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling that a bad moon is rising over all the world's democracies? Do they indeed have a future? Or is perhaps democracy fated to melt away, along with our polar ice caps? The work of one of Britain's leading political writers, this is no mere antiquarian history. Stylishly written, this superb book confronts its readers with an entirely fresh and irreverent look at the past, present and future of democracy. It unearths the beginnings of such precious institutions and ideals as government by public assembly, votes for women, the secret ballot, trial by jury and press freedom. It tracks the changing, hotly disputed meanings of democracy and describes quite a few of the extraordinary characters, many of them long forgotten, who dedicated their lives to building or defending democracy. And it explains why democracy is still potentially the best form of government on earth -- and why democracies everywhere are sleepwalking their way into deep trouble.
Reconstructing the Roman Republic
Author: Karl-J. HölkeskampPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691140383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central role of the 'sovereign' people and their assemblies. Karl-J. Hölkeskamp challenges this view in Reconstructing the Roman Republic, warning that this scholarly trend threatens to become the new orthodoxy, and defending the position that the republic was in fact a uniquely Roman, dominantly oligarchic and aristocratic political form. Hölkeskamp offers a comprehensive, in-depth survey of the modern debate surrounding the Roman Republic. He looks at the ongoing controversy first triggered in the 1980s when the 'oligarchic orthodoxy' was called into question by the idea that the republic's political culture was a form of Greek-style democracy, and he considers the important theoretical and methodological advances of the 1960s and 1970s that prepared the ground for this debate. Hölkeskamp renews and refines the 'elitist' view, showing how the republic was a unique kind of premodern city-state political culture shaped by a specific variant of a political class. He covers a host of fascinating topics, including the Roman value system; the senatorial aristocracy; competition in war and politics within this aristocracy; and the symbolic language of public rituals and ceremonies, monuments, architecture, and urban topography. Certain to inspire continued debate, Reconstructing the Roman Republic offers fresh approaches to the study of the republic while attesting to the field's enduring vitality.