Peter Jones

Ancient & modern | 24 November 2007

When this column discusses democracy, it is usually to argue that our elective oligarchy bears no relation to it at all; that there is nothing wrong with elective oligarchy, except calling it something it transparently is not; but why not try real, i.e. ancient Athenian, democracy for a change when the chance arises?

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