"What we understand by democracy is not what an Athenian in the time of Pericles would have understood by it. Greek, R…"

"In the Greek vision of democracy, the citizen is a whole person for whom politics is a natural social activity not sh…"

"At its simplest, what happened was that several city-states, which from time out of mind had been governed by various…"

"Citizens are more heterogeneous body than the Greeks thought desirable. In many countries, in fact they are extraordi…"

"Thanks to events in Britain and America, the eighteenth century also saw the development of a strain of radical repub…"

"In the aristocratic republican view, even though the people, the many, ought to have an important role in government,…"

"As more and more citizens lived at too great a distance for them easily to make the journey to Rome, the assemblies w…"

"The transformation of democratic theory and practice that resulted from its union with representation has had profoun…"

"The members believe that no single member, and no minority of members, is so definitely better qualified to rule that…"

"Finally, then, what can we reasonably conclude as to the limits and possibilities of democratization, particularly in…"