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Author(s): Loren J. Samons II
ISBN(s): 9781417545339, 141754533X
Edition: 1
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Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 141754533X
ISBN 13: 9781417545339
Author: Loren J Samons Ii

Fifth-century Athens is praised as the cradle of democracy and sometimes treated as a potential model for modern political theory or practice. In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy and its significance for the United States today, Loren J. Samons provides ample justification for our founding fathers’ distrust of democracy, a form of government they scorned precisely because of their familiarity with classical Athens. How Americans have come to embrace “democracy” in its modern form—and what the positive and negative effects have been—is an important story for all contemporary citizens.

Confronting head-on many of the beliefs we hold dear but seldom question, Samons examines Athens’s history in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in order to test the popular idea that majority rule leads to good government. Challenging many basic assumptions about the character and success of Athenian democracy, What’s Wrong with Democracy? offers fascinating and accessible discussions of topics including the dangers of the popular vote, Athens’s acquisitive foreign policy, the tendency of the state to overspend, the place of religion in Athenian society, and more.

Sure to generate controversy, Samons’s bold and iconoclastic book finds that democracy has begun to function like an unacknowledged religion in our culture, immune from criticism and dissent, and he asks that we remember the Athenian example and begin to question our uncritical worship of democratic values such as freedom, choice, and diversity.

What s Wrong with Democracy From Athenian Practice to American Worship 1st Table of contents:

1 Athenian Society and Government

  • Athens and Polis Government

  • Athens after Solon’s Reforms

  • Athenian History in the Classical Period

2 Democracy and Demagogues: Election, Voting, and Qualifications for Citizenship

  • Qualifications for Citizenship

  • Did the Demos Rule Well?

  • Leaders versus Demagogues: The Case of Pericles

  • Modern Confusion about Election

3 Public Finance: Democracy and the People’s Purse

  • The Spoils of Battle and the Fruits of the Earth

  • War, Taxes, Debt, and Revolution

  • Digression: Democracy and the Athenian Self-Image

  • Epilogue: Paying the Public or Funding the Military?

4 Foreign Policy I: Democracy Imperial

  • Early Athenian Ambitions in the Aegean

  • The Persian Wars and the Creation of the Athenian Empire

  • Reversed Alliances and Continuing Expansion

5 Foreign Policy II: The Peloponnesian War

  • The Effects of the Peloponnesian War

  • Digression: Historical Causation and the Aesthetics of History

  • Prelude to War

  • Pericles and the Causes of the Peloponnesian War

  • The Peloponnesian War

6 National Defense: Democracy Defeated

  • A Fourth-Century Empire?

  • The Rise of Macedon and the End of Athenian Democracy

7 Democracy and Religion

  • Digression: Man’s Desire for Society

  • Athens and the Integral Society

  • Modern America and the Religion of Democracy

  • Freedom, Choice, and Diversity

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