In: Studies in Choice and Welfare Ser.
In: Studies in choice and welfare
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I History -- Chapter 1 -- Athenian Democracy -- 1.1 Introduction: Democracy for Stability and Social Consent -- 1.2 Path to Democracy -- 1.2.1 Draco's Laws -- 1.2.2 Laws of Solon -- 1.2.3 Tyranny of Peisistratos -- 1.2.4 Rule of Peisistratos' Sons and Cleisthenes' Rise -- 1.3 Establishing Democracy -- 1.3.1 Cleisthenes' Constitution -- 1.4 Culmination of Democracy -- 1.4.1 Pericles' Leadership -- 1.5 Philosophy of Democracy -- 1.5.1 Controversial Opinions on Democracy -- 1.5.2 Rotation and Sortition Principles -- 1.5.3 Plato's Skepticism About Democracy -- 1.5.4 Plato's Ideal Governance -- 1.5.5 Plato's Ideas and Modern Politics -- 1.6 Aristotle's Mathematical Model of Three Types of Governance -- 1.7 Summary: Antique Understanding of Democracy -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Echoes of Democracy in Ancient Rome -- 2.1 Introduction: Greek Influence on Romans -- 2.2 Typology of States and the Theory of Mixed Government -- 2.3 Rotation of Government Types -- 2.4 The Roman Republic -- 2.5 Pliny's Logical Analysis of a Senate Hearing -- 2.6 Summary: Equilibrium of Power Forms in Rome -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Revival of Democracy in Italian Medieval City-Republics -- 3.1 Introduction: Propagation of Elections -- 3.2 The Venetian Republic -- 3.3 The Florentine Republic -- 3.3.1 Professional Guilds as Miniature Republics -- 3.3.2 Establishment and Abolition of the First Democracy -- 3.3.3 Second Democracy and Ordinances of Justice -- 3.3.4 Republican Constitution -- 3.3.5 Sunset of Democracy -- 3.4 Theory of Mixed Government Revitalized -- 3.4.1 Treatise by St. Thomas Aquinas -- 3.4.2 Breakthrough Ideas of Marsilius of Padua and William of Ockham -- 3.4.3 Leonardo Bruni and Francesco Guicciardini on Elections and Sortition -- 3.4.4 Nicc`olo Machiavelli's Republican Thought.
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