Making Direct Democracy Work. An economic perspective on the graphe paranomon in ancient Athens
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Keywords
Ancient Athens; graphe paranomon; direct democracy; judicial review; voter; information; political stability; jury composition;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H10 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - General
- N40 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - General, International, or Comparative
- N43 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - Europe: Pre-1913
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2017-07-23 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-POL-2017-07-23 (Positive Political Economics)
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