From Deliberative Democracy to Consent Democracy

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Public finance: Ancient and modern concepts.- 1.2 Max Weber's honorifics and Athenian democracy: analytical framework and approach.- 1.3 The source corpus: documentation, literary reflection, and material evidence.- 1.4 Research context: public finance and the genesis of honorifics.- 2 Realized choices: Public finance as a reflection of Athenian self-understanding.- 2.1 The polis as a community of equal citizens.- 2.2 The polis as a community of destiny.- 2.3 The polis as a community of worship.- 2.4 The polis as a community of defence.- 2.5 Results.- 3 The counterexample: Sparta.- 3.1 The Thucydidean legacy: the source situation.- 3.2 The complexity of the revenue and expenditure structure.- 3.3 The all-dominant discourse: the ideology of equality.- 3.4 The invisible actors: the role of the Periaeca.- 3.5 Findings.- 4 The nexus of economic and social elite.- 4.1 "My money for your purposes": eisphora and leiturgia.- 4.2 The formation of an economically and socially defined stratum.- 4.3 The reciprocity of the leiturgia and eisphora systems.- 4.4 Results.- 5 The link between socio-economic and political elite.- 5.1 Demosthenes' first speech to the people's assembly, or: how does an ambitious rhetor distinguish himself?.- 5.2 Making more of many by making few of many: The principals of the theorikon treasury.- 5.3 A changed understanding of office: the Leiturgization of offices.- 5.4 A democracy on an unprecedented scale: the monumentalization of public buildings.- 5.5 The "glue of democracy": the discussion of the theorika.- 5.5 The "glue of democracy": the discussion of the theorika. 5.6 Results.- 6 Conclusion: The formation of a competence elite as an Athenian variety of WEBER's honorifics.- Bibliography.- Index of things, places and persons (in selection).- Source index of ancient authors (in selection).- Index of inscriptions (in selection).