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When Democracies Vote to Overthrow Themselves: Lessons from Classical Athens.
When Democracies Vote to Overthrow Themselves: Lessons from Classical Athens.
Democracy most often ends not with a violent spasm, but with a vote. Oligarchic challengers leverage their small numbers to coordinate dis-informing campaigns, hoping that enough citizens will withhold their support for democratic rule. Already in the fifth- and fourth-centuries BCE, Greek democracies experimented with strategies to overcome these problems, such as the Solonian law […]
