POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Direct Democracy, The Good Life, Civic Virtue

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1000
• Professor: Rodney Loeppky

Document Summary

Ancient athens and democracy: one of the earliest in which there is a clear notion of democracy, we have some written record about this (of what was said), we know the history written by the elite (the post privileged), we also know that the ancient ideal of democracy has a holding power we know that there are constant references to ancient democracy in athens, the time we are talking about is the end of the 5th bc and early 6th bc profound society during this time. 4 classes, idea was you are breaking up political power: only 3 out of 4 are allowed participate in politics however they are all allowed to vote, what is reforms do (in an institutional way) allow citizens some kind of participation in the system in a way they never had before, social strike doesn"t go away c) reforms of cleisthenes.