On what we can learn from the Athenian experiment. America may be still a constitutional republic in name, but recently it has operated more as an unchecked Athenian-style democracy. Americans may ...

Has American democracy failed? What if we could pose that question to the people who invented democracy? Suppose we summoned a time-traveling stranger, a citizen of the Greek city-state of Athens f… ...

At the birthplace of democracy, classical Athens’ experience with the plague can teach us something that matters for American democracy today.

From the originary, Athenian meaning of democracy to the Civil War-torn Americans’ etiolated, watered-down version of indirect, representative parliamentary democracy was a very long stretch indeed.

“The next American president and I could not be more different,” Obama told an audience here in Athens. “But American democracy is bigger than any one person. ...

Introduced in 508 BC by Cleisthenes, known as the “father of Athenian democracy”, the procedure, called ostracism, sought to guard Athenians against the conniving ways of corrupt men.

Athens Saved Its Democracy. Will America? MOMENT OF TRUTH. ... tumultuous events we’re living through might historians someday include on a list of key events in the collapse of American democracy?

The truth is, however, that there is little resemblance between ancient Athenian democracy and our post-modern American version of it, and thankfully so. ... For a start, the radical democracy of ...

At Prawfsblawg, legal scholar Paul Gowder has an insightful post on some of the reasons why the study of ancient Athenian democracy is relevant to modern debates about law and politics. I would ...

In Athens, democracy disintegrated when the rich grew super-rich, refused to play by the rules and undermined the established system of government. That is the point that the United States and ...