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The chapter goes on to draw out the role played by the three major institutions of Athenian democracy: the Council, the Assembly, and the law courts. It ends with a discussion of some other features of the polis, including ostracism, as well as two important reforms to democratic procedures...
Cosco has quietly become one of the busiest of those investors. Even before the BRI was unveiled, it began acquiring stakes in numerous key ports, piecing together a network of terminals around Europe. (The company signs long-term concessions with local governments; Piraeus is the only European...
“ungovernable”. Those wobbles have tended to take place at times of economic strife and you can see democracy as a bargain, as Schumpeter did, in which the elected leaders promise prosperity to the voters, and the voters give their consent to being governed on that basis. The last few ...
When I listed the examples last year, I also noted that nobody could agree on when the insanity would end, nor how it would end. But end it apparently has. Here we are today, with more attractive opportunities than we have seen in a long time, delivered in one short week. ...
My beloved infidel friends on the left and my likewise-beloved but likewise-misled ultra- orthodox friends on the right have long joined in believing that capitalism is as Marx put it in 1867, "solely the restless stirring for gain. This absolute desire for enrichment, this passionate hunt ...
So far, this has been a story of a city-state enjoying unprecedented power and wealth, lying to itself about the dark parts of how it came to achieve such a status. The resumption of the Peloponnesian War in 431 BCE was the beginning of a long, uneven decline for Athens. Now, I’ll...
While he was hated by many Athenians, who believed in democracy not monarchies or empires — and while, Cartledge says, some followers of Zoroastrianism, an ancient monotheistic religion, still think of him as evil for destroying their ancient records in Persepolis, modern-day Iran — since his...
While Eli Sagan believes Athenian democracy can be divided into seven chapters, classicist and political scientist Josiah Ober has a different view. He sees 12 stages in the development of Athenian democracy, including the initial Eupatrid oligarchy and the final fall of democracy to the imperial ...