Plato: love or condemnation to athen's democracy

The Origin of Democracy in Athens

A new explanation of the origin of democracy is presented motivated by historical observations from ancient Athens. It is argued volatility in wealth across generations encouraged the elites to extend the franchise to nonelites. While being among the elite allows for the extraction of wealth from the nonelite, if there is a significant probability one’s offspring will fall from the ranks of the...

Supplementary Appendix to “Learning to Love Democracy: Electoral Accountability and the Success of Democracy”

This appendix contains i) proofs and explanations of those technical results that do not follow directly from the discussion in the text; ii) figures that portray the timing of moves in the accountability game in Section 2.2, and the simulated distributions of time to breakdown and consolidation; and iii) a preliminary empirical analysis of the age-conditional relationship between economic down...

DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE IN ANCIENT ATHENS Ilya

Epistemic democracy in classical Athens : Sophistication , diversity , and innovation

Analysis of democracy in Athens as an “epistemic” (knowledge-based) form of political and social organization. Adapted from Ober, Democracy and Knowledge, chapters 1-4. Jon Elster (ed.), volume on “Collective Wisdom” (to be published in English and French). © Josiah Ober. [email protected]

Condemnation to plagiarism

One of the biggest spots of science communication is plagiarism. This despicable practice, although it is practiced by a small percentage of scientists has created many hitches and put under suspicion the serious studies of those engaged in science as a form of knowledge to improve the condition of life on our planet. Plagiarism was one of the dominant themes of the XXI Scientific Publishing Co...