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The Athenian trierarchy : mechanism design for the private provision of public goods

Kaiser, Brooks A. - In: The journal of economic history 67 (2007) 2, pp. 445-480

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'Rulers Ruled by Women' : An Economic Analysis of the Rise and Fall of Women's Rights in Ancient Sparta

Fleck, Robert K.; Hanssen, F. Andrew - 2006

Throughout most of history, women as a class have possessed relatively few formal rights. The women of ancient Sparta were a striking exception. Although they could not vote, Spartan women reportedly owned 40 percent of Sparta's agricultural land and enjoyed other rights that were equally...

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Information aggregation in democratic mechanisms

Britz, Volker; Gersbach, Hans - 2016 - This version: January 22, 2016

We examine whether and how democratic procedures can achieve socially desirable public good provision in the presence of profound uncertainty about the benefits of public goods, i.e., when citizens are able to identify the distribution of benefits only if they aggregate their private...

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Opacity in bargaining over public good provision

Lamprecht, Julian; Thum, Marcel - 2022

We consider ultimatum bargaining over the provision of a public good. Offer-maker and responder can delegate their decisions to agents, whose actual decision rules are opaque. We show that the responder will benefit from strategic opacity, even with bilateral delegation. The incomplete...

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Constitutional Choice in Ancient Athens : The Rationality of Selection to Office by Lot

Tridimas, George - 2011

Contrary to modern democracies ancient Athens appointed large numbers of government officers by lot. After describing the Athenian arrangements, the paper reviews the literature on the choice between election and lot focusing on representativeness of the population, distributive justice,...

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Testing Legal Origins Theory within France : Customary Laws versus Roman Code

Le Bris, David - 2018

Before 1804, France was strictly divided in terms of legal regimes: a part was under Roman civil law while the majority of the territory was under customary laws which, as with common law, gave more flexibility to judges and fewer rights to the state. This dichotomy offers the unique opportunity...

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Democracy and Political Knowledge in Ancient Athens

Somin, Ilya - 2009

In his excellent book Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens, Josiah Ober argues that ancient Athenian democracy surmounted the dangers of political ignorance and made effective use of dispersed citizen knowledge to forge good public policy. He effectively...

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Engineering the Rule of Law in Ancient Athens

Fleck, Robert K. - 2017

Scholars typically regard the “rule of law” – a stable and predictable process by which laws are implemented, enforced, and changed – as a cornerstone of good governance and a key factor supporting economic growth. Yet establishing the rule of law involves a tradeoff: ex ante commitment...

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Golden Dawn Is Attempting To Regain A Presence In Greece With A Focus On Northern Greece And Western Thrace

Tulun, Teoman Ertuğrul - 2023

Florina, Northern Greece. GD organized the demonstration in response to the approval of the "Macedonian Language Center" in … Greece as an official NGO. In response to the GD's march, groups opposing far-right organizations, student organizations, and … Macedonia issue, using it as a political asset. GD has had a cultural and political base in Greece since the 1973 military coup …

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How do voters respond to welfare vis-à-vis public good programs? : theory and evidence of political clientelism

Bardhan, Pranab K.; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 15 (2024) 3, pp. 655-697

Using rural household survey data from West Bengal, we find that voters respond positively to excludable government welfare benefits but not to local public good programs, while reporting having benefited from both. Consistent with these voting patterns, shocks to electoral competition induced...

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