12 títulos para "Ober Josiah"
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Political Dissent in Democratic Athens
Ober, Josiah
978-0-691-08981-2How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.? By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and literary analysis, Josiah Ober argues that the tradition originated in a high-stakes debate about democrac...
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Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens
Ober, Josiah
978-0-691-02864-4This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work as well and for as long as it did? Josiah Ober seeks the answer by analyzing the sociology of Athenian politics and the nature of communication between elite and n...
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Democracy and Knowledge
Ober, Josiah
978-0-691-14624-9When does democracy work well, and why? Is democracy the best form of government? These questions are of supreme importance today as the United States seeks to promote its democratic values abroad. Democracy and Knowledge is the first book to look to ancient Athens to explain how and why directly de...
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Athenian Legacies
Ober, Josiah
978-0-691-13394-2How do communities survive catastrophe? Using classical Athens as its case study, this book argues that if a democratic community is to survive over time, its people must choose to go on together. That choice often entails hardship and hard bargains. In good times, going on together presents few dif...
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The Athenian Revolution
Ober, Josiah
978-0-691-00190-6Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens of Athens in 508-507 B.C. He then examines the consequences of the development of direct democracy for...
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