Questions

Questions

Democratic systems are based on some combination of 'freedom', 'equality' and 'solidarity'. In what ways does 'solidarity' complicate our understanding of 'freedom' and 'equality'?

All citizens were expected to participate, and the attendance at the sovereign Assembly may have been as high as 6,000. When decision-taking bodies had to be smaller, their members were selected by lot rather than by election. Every citizen of Athens had a reasonably high probability of being chief executive for a day. When democracy was reinvented in the eighteenth century, every system was indirect: voters elected representatives who took decisions for which they were ...