... striking to me as a professional student of ancient democracy, since those were two of the three criteria enunciated in Herodotus's Histories (book 3, chapters 80–82), the Western world's earliest theoretical statement of what democracy ideally is, in contrast and opposition to either oligarchy...

...Frank R. Ankersmit The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University 2002 REPRESENTATIONAL DEMOCRACY An Aesthetic Approach to Conflict and Compromise Frank R. Ankersmit It follows from the historicist conception of political...

....   Moscow and Budapest like places in democracy of illiberal new waves and Afghanistan and Iraq in ofdemocracy imposition the including ofdemocracy, defense in measures antidemocratic as well as territories, those in   decades a half and two ensuing the ofdemocracy...

... Press 352 Richard T. Neer, Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, circa 530–470 BCE 353 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 306 pp. Keats’s urn was an “unravish’d bride of quietness,” but she was of stone...

... Press 352 Richard T. Neer, Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, circa 530–470 BCE 353 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 306 pp. Keats’s urn was an “unravish’d bride of quietness,” but she was of stone...

...Jeffrey Stout Duke University Press 2007 S y m p o s i u m : A “ D i c t a t o r s h i p o f R e l a t i v i s m ” ? A HOUSE FOUNDED ON THE SEA Is Democracy a Dictatorship of Relativism? Jeffrey Stout In his homily of April 18, 2005, Joseph...

...William M. Chace Nussbaum Martha C. , Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2010 ), 158 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Amir...

...David Konstan Robinson Eric W. , Democracy Beyond Athens: Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 ), 275 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...Charles Sullivan Israel Jonathan , A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2010 ), 276 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...Josiah Ober Loren Samons II, What's Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), 327 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren Samons II...

...Paul Cartledge Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Brennan Jason , Against Democracy ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2016 ), 288 pp. ...

...Nadia Urbinati Abstract In the context of the ongoing Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this article responds skeptically to the numerous contributions calling for the supplanting of elections by sortition. While lottocracy is proposed as a solution to the flaws of electoral democracy...

...Paul Demont Abstract In consonance with the view of Aristotle in book 4 of the Politics , Montesquieu wrote that “selection by lot is in the nature of democracy; election by choice is in the nature of aristocracy.” Although the drawing of lots was a marker of classical Athenian democracy, Socrates...

...Paul Cartledge Abstract As part of the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics” — which concerns the present confrontation and confusion of democracy and populism — this essay begins from the observation that populism is a word of Latin, not Greek, derivation. The Roman populus did not have...

...Jennifer T. Roberts Abstract Recoiling from the power that Athenian democracy placed in the hands of the poor, the founding fathers of the United States took Athens as primarily an anti-model, whereas nineteenth-century defenders of slavery found Athens a very congenial model indeed, seeming...

...Terrill G. Bouricius Abstract Part 1 of this article, which appeared in the first installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” presented reasons why elections are an inappropriate method for selecting representatives in a democracy. Part 2, published in the symposium's second...

..., and this article seeks to assess those changes in the context of three ideal types that advocate the use of randomly selected minipublics. This article analyzes, each in turn, the attraction of sortition for supporters and theorists of deliberative democracy, antipolitical democracy, and radical democracy...

...Terrill G. Bouricius Abstract While elections are, today, widely considered a fundamental feature of democracy, the argument of this two‐part article, published in the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” is that elections are a problematic and even inappropriate way of choosing...

...John Gastil Abstract As part of the ongoing Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this essay replies to an article by Nadia Urbinati: “The Sovereignty of Chance: Can Lottery Save Democracy?” Urbinati's piece expresses reservations about the tendency of symposium contributions to support what...

... arrangements were not an endorsement of ideals of universal suffrage, representative democracy, and majoritarianism but instead—along with legal agency—mechanisms for the protection of the people from tyranny. This overlooked feature of Leveller political thought may have something to teach us about...