Democracy and economy : an inseparable relationship from ancient times to today / by Emmanouil Marios N. Economou and Nicholas C. Kyriazis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Economou, Emmanouil M. L., author.

Kyriazis, Nicholas C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--History.

Democracy.

Democracy--Economic aspects.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

This text presents a detailed history of democracy, while also considering the modern methodological tools of economic history, institutional economics, and political, social and behavioural sciences, to explain why and how democracy was created, how it evolved and how it progresses. The book provides answers to a number of questions, such as what form of government democracy is, why it was first developed in ancient Greece, why it is that democracy--in order to flourish--requires strong and stable economic structures, and what role political and military organizations play in the shape of these elements. The volume analyses various cases studies drawn from Ancient Greece, Switzerland, England, the United Provinces, France, the USA, Germany and the EU.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The obvious that is not so obvious

Part I: The democratic macroculture and the birth of democracy. The destruction of the Mycenaean world that brings forth creation: Democracy and war

Democracy, religion, athletics and politics

Macroculture, politics, human and property rights from the archaic to the classical and Hellenistic periods

How the Athenian economy functioned

The Greeks create the first federations

Part II: The rebirth of democracy in post-medieval Europe and the rest of the world. The gradual revival of democracy from the late middle ages until today

The united provinces: The first modern maritime proto-democratic federation

England and the United provinces: Maritime democratic dwarfs against continental imperial giants

New countries discover democracy

The empire of oceans against the continental empire

Modern forms of direct democracy

Epilogue: Democracy in times of crisis

Annex 1: The theoretical framework of the concept of macroculture

Annex 2: The degree of democratisation and economic development

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5275-3567-3

OCLC:

1183030359