Creating a Constitution

Name: Creating a Constitution | Law, Democracy, and Growth in Ancient Athens
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Law, Democracy, and Growth in Ancient Athens

Federica Carugati(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 20. August 2019

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Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I.1. Existing Accounts
I.2. Constitution Building in Ancient Athens
I.3. Methodology
I.4. Alternative Explanations
I.5. Contribution
I.6. Outline of the Book
1: Athens before the Crisis
1.1. Laws and Lawgivers: Athens' Archaic Development
1.1.a. Draco
1.1.b. Solon
1.1.c. Cleisthenes
1.2. Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens
1.2.a. The Council of Five Hundred
1.2.b. The Assembly
1.2.c. The Courts
1.2.d. The Magistrates
1.3. Democracy and Empire
1.4. Pitfalls of Democracy
2: Constitution and Consensus
2.1. A New Reading of the Ancient Sources
2.2. The Patrios Politeia Consensus
2.2.a. The Four Hundred (411-410)
2.2.b. The Five Thousand (410-409)
2.2.c. The First Restored Democracy (409-404)
2.2.d. The Thirty (404-403)
2.3. The Athenian Self-Enforcing Constitution
2.3.a. Limits
2.3.b. Incentives
2.3.c. Enforcement Mechanisms
2.4. Conclusion
3: Stability and Innovation in Athenian Policy
3.1. Actors and Preferences
3.1.a. Was Litigation an Exclusively Elite Domain?
3.1.b. Who Were the Jurors?
3.1.c. Social Networks and Plural Preferences
3.2. Modeling Law-Court Interactions
3.2.a. The Median Voter Theorem
3.2.b. Litigants' Preferences: Honor vs. Policy
3.2.c. Costs
3.3. Decision-Making in the Courts
3.3.a. The Legislative Process
3.3.b. A Hypothetical Case: Leo v. Ernie
3.3.c. Assumptions
3.3.d. The Model
3.3.e. Implications
3.4. Stability and Innovation between Solon and the Median Juror
3.5. Conclusion
4: The Institutional Foundations of Prosperity
4.1. After the Civil War
4.1.a. Fiscal Policy Reforms
4.1.b. Athenian Foreign Policy: Rent Extraction or Market Incentives
4.1.c. Credible Commitment: The Issue of Noncitizens
4.2. After the Social War (357-355)
4.2.a. Fiscal Policy between the Social War and Chaeronea
4.2.b. The Laurion Silver Mines
4.2.c. The Harbor of Piraeus
4.3. After Chaeronea (338)
4.3.a. The Laurion Mines and Public and Sacred Lands
4.3.b. The Contribution of the Elite
4.3.c. The Contribution of Piraeus
4.4. Conclusion
5: The Paths Not Taken
5.1. Prosperity and Civil Conflict: A Comparative Study
5.1.a. Syracuse (Fifth-Fourth Centuries)
5.1.b. Rome (First Century)
5.1.c. Conclusion
5.2. Resources, Regime, and Growth: Athens and Piraeus
5.2.a. Piraeus' Geography
5.2.b. Piraeus' History
5.2.c. Is the Oligarchic Ship Seaworthy?
5.2.d. Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendix A. Piraeus' Geography
A.1. Aegean Navigation
A.2. Piraeus' Rivals
A.2.a. Aegina
A.2.b. Corinth
A.2.c. Megara
A.3. Piraeus' Late Development
Appendix B. Piraeus' History
B.1. The Classical Period
B.1.a. Population
B.1.b. Security
B.1.c. Capacity
B.1.d. Volume of Trade
B.1.e. Conclusion
B.2. The Hellenistic and Roman Periods
B.3. The Byzantine and Ottoman Periods
B.4. The Period of Greek Independence
Bibliography
Index

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