Democracies and Republics Between Past and Future: From the Athenian Agora to e-Democracy, from the Roman Republic to Negative Power

ISBN-13: 9780367672591 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 130 str.

Carlo Pelloso

Opis

Democracies and Republics Between Past and Future focuses on the concepts of direct rule by the people in early and classical Athens, and the tribunician negative power in early republican Rome – and through this lens explores current political issues in our society.　

Recenzje

"[P.] provides an interesting overview of the arguments, many insights grounded in detailed knowledge of ancient legal and constitutional arrangements, and useful comparative examples from beyond the Anglosphere...[his] expertise and perspective make this an interesting addition to scholarship on the predicaments of democracy."
- The Classical Review

"If one follows the author on the narrow but profound path of a search for conceptual and institutional arrangements that would reduce the weight of the elites in favor of greater effective participation of the people, one is rewarded with beautiful and concise analyses of Greek democracy and the tribunate of the people in Rome. "
-Hinnerk Bruhns, Anabases

Spis treści

Introduction. Democracies, Republics and Beyond: Challenges and Questions; Chapter 1. The Need for New Paradigms; Chapter 2. Δημοκρατία: Back to the Future; Chapter 3. Tribuni and Res Publica: At the Roots of the Concurrent Majority; Index

O autorze

Carlo Pelloso is Associate Professor of Roman Law at the University of Verona, Italy, and Adjunct Professor of Ancient Greek Law at the University of Padua, Italy. He has been 'visiting scholar' at the Universities of Edinburgh, UK, Berlin (Freie Universität), Germany; and La Habana, Cuba. He has published more than fifty articles and four monographs on the legal experiences of the ancient Mediterranean. He is co-director of the international review RΔΕ - Review of Hellenic Law.