Democracy Through Multi-Body Sortition: Athenian Lessons for the Modern Day
Mature Classical Athenian democracy is presented as a representative system, rather than the commonly described form of “direct democracy.” When viewed in this way, the commonly assumed problem of scale in applying Athenian democracy to modern nation states is solved, and principles and practices of...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Westminster Press
2013-04-01
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| Series: | Journal of Deliberative Democracy |
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| Online Access: | https://delibdemjournal.org/article/id/428/ |