A community of communities : associations and democracy in classical Athens
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines the relationship between associations and democracy in Classical Athens. It seeks to test some of the main hypotheses of modern theorists of social capital in the ancient Athenian context. I argue that civil associations of a certain type and democratic institutions roughly co-vary in Athenian history, and suggest a couple of mechanisms that may have linked the two phenomena. In my main example, I show how Athenians outsourced the task of defining the citizenry to a series of associations. In doing so, they helped minimize their reliance on a central state, dispersing authority and information among a network of small groups.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Kierstead, James Charles |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Classics. |
| Primary advisor | Ober, Josiah |
| Thesis advisor | Ober, Josiah |
| Thesis advisor | Morris, Ian |
| Thesis advisor | Nightingale, Andrea Wilson |
| Advisor | Morris, Ian |
| Advisor | Nightingale, Andrea Wilson |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | James Charles Kierstead. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Classics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by James Charles Kierstead
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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