Democracy without political parties: the case of ancient Athens
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DOI: 10.1017/s1744137419000249
Abstract: Political parties, formal, durable and mass organizations that inform voters on public policy issues, nominate candidates for office and fight elections for the right to govern, are ubiquitous in modern representative democracies but were absent… read more here.
Keywords: political parties; democracy; democracy without; without political ... See more keywords
Cybernetics in the Republic
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DOI: 10.1177/09526951221134478
Abstract: Plato's Republic lurks in cybernetics, a word popularly attributed to US American mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894–1964). In his accounts of how he came up with it, however, Wiener never mentions Plato, though he does note… read more here.
Keywords: wiener; word; cybernetics republic; ancient athens ... See more keywords