Ancient Greece is where the first form of direct democracy was developed. It was called demokratia, literally meaning "rule ...

Democracy is a system of shared governance by the people—a novel organizational structure that demands complex institutions for decision-making and a realignment of individual allegiance away ...

An Athenian men's club. The second key difference is the level of participation. Our democracy is representative - we choose politicians to rule for us. Athenian democracy was direct and in-your-face.

The Athenian populist Ephialtes soon pushed through more radical reforms in 462/1 B.C. that led to an even greater expansion of the power of the Athenian popular Assembly. His radicalization of the ...

The concept of a democratic society, such as the one our country enjoys today, began in the Greek capital some 8,000 years ago. The city of Athens is sometimes referred to as the cradle of Western … ...

As a system of government, democracy quickly spread to a number of other leading city-states, despite the authoritarian grip of Sparta on the Greek world. However, Sparta's dominance was not to last.

“Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now,” Pericles, the great Athenian statesman, declared in his funeral oration, a celebrated speech in the winter of 431–430 B ...

From the originary, Athenian meaning of democracy to the Civil War-torn Americans’ etiolated, watered-down version of indirect, representative parliamentary democracy was a very long stretch indeed.

Athenian 'democracy' was nothing of the sort. Published 14 June 2017. From Pam Manfield, The Narth, ... But sortition of some sort still sounds better than our current system, ...

The immigrants, women and slaves who were silenced in Athenian democracy were given life on stage. By Simon Critchley Mr. Critchley is a philosophy professor and author. ATHENS — Our next ...