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  1. Dangerous counsel
    accountability and advice in ancient Greece
    Author: Landauer, Matthew
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; London

    We often talk loosely of the "tyranny of the majority" as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyrant was no mere metaphor, nor a simple reflection of elite prejudice. Instead, it highlighted an... more

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    We often talk loosely of the "tyranny of the majority" as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyrant was no mere metaphor, nor a simple reflection of elite prejudice. Instead, it highlighted an important structural feature of Athenian democracy. Like the tyrant, the Athenian demos was an unaccountable political actor with the power to hold its subordinates to account. And like the tyrant, the demos could be dangerous to counsel since the orator speaking before the assembled demos was accountable for the advice he gave. With Dangerous Counsel, Matthew Landauer analyzes the sometimes ferocious and unpredictable politics of accountability in ancient Greece and offers novel readings of ancient history, philosophy, rhetoric, and drama. In comparing the demos to a tyrant, thinkers such as Herodotus, Plato, Isocrates, and Aristophanes were attempting to work out a theory of the badness of unaccountable power; to understand the basic logic of accountability and why it is difficult to get right; and to explore the ways in which political discourse is profoundly shaped by institutions and power relationships. In the process they created strikingly portable theories of counsel and accountability that traveled across political regime types and remain relevant to our contemporary political dilemmas

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780226653792; 9780226654010
    Subjects: Griechisch; Literatur; Demokratie; Tyrann; Demos; Rechenschaft; Rat
    Other subjects: Greece / Politics and government / To 146 B.C.; Political consultants / Greece; Government accountability / Greece; Democracy / Greece; Despotism / Greece; Comparative government; Comparative government; Democracy; Despotism; Government accountability; Political consultants; Politics and government; Greece; To 146 B.C.
    Scope: viii, 240 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Introduction -- Accountability and unaccountability in Athenian democracy -- The tyrant : unaccountability's second face -- The accountable adviser in Herodotus' histories -- Responsibility and accountability in Thucydides' Mytilenean debate -- Parrhēsia across politeiai -- Demagoguery and the limits of expert advice in Plato's Gorgias -- Conclusion
  2. Dangerous counsel
    accountability and advice in ancient Greece
    Author: Landauer, Matthew
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
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    GE 2021/4105
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    Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Geschichtliche Rechtsvergleichung, Bibliothek
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780226653792; 9780226654010
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    Subjects: Political consultants; Government accountability; Democracy; Despotism; Comparative government
    Scope: viii, 240 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  3. Dangerous counsel
    accountability and advice in ancient Greece
    Author: Landauer, Matthew
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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    Universität Potsdam, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780226653792; 9780226654010
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    Subjects: Political consultants; Government accountability; Democracy; Despotism; Comparative government
    Scope: viii, 240 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index