The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic

Millar, Fergus

doi:10.3998/mpub.15678

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“…Essa assembleia formal cresceu em importância durante a vida da república. Juntamente com as assembleias deliberativas da plebe convocadas informalmente, os contiones, esses conselhos presumivelmente constituem o que Maquiavel queria significar por "o povo" (Adcock, 1964;Millar, 1998;Taylor, 1990).…”

Section: A Constituição Romanaunclassified

Democracia maquiaveliana: controlando as elites com um populismo feroz

McCormick

2013

Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Polít.

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Este ensaio demonstra que o pensamento político de Maquiavel lida com as deficiências de dois polos opostos da teoria democrática contemporânea. Assim como fazem as abordagens formais ou minimalistas, ele especifica mecanismos eleitorais para o controle das elites; e de modo similar às abordagens da cultura substantiva ou cívica, encoraja modos mais diretos e robustos de participação popular. Com base nisso, seleciono aspectos dos Discursos de Maquiavel que proporcionam uma teoria da democracia na qual a população escolhe as elites que assumirão o poder, mas também as patrulha constantemente por meio de instituições e práticas extraeleitorais, como os tribunos do povo, as denúncias públicas e as petições populares. Maquiavel acrescenta a essas características do governo popular uma dimensão cultural importante: o povo deve desdenhar as elites, desconfiar delas e enfrentar ativamente a injustiça inevitavelmente acarretada pela elite governante. Finalmente, exploro as ramificações dessa teoria para os debates sobre a responsabilidade das elites na teoria democrática contemporânea.

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Section: A Constituição Romanaunclassified

Democracia maquiaveliana: controlando as elites com um populismo feroz

McCormick

2013

Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Polít.

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“…Thus when neo-roman republican thinkers, past and present, identify democracy with populism, they do not see democracy as a complex form of government, as Aristotle suggested, but identify it with its most negative form (demagoguery) and call it democracy. They disclaim democracy on the basis of the Roman contextual experience of the role of the people and identify it with popular government, which in the Roman case was indeed populist and plebiscitarian (Millar 2005, 13–48).…”

Section: Democracy Misrepresentedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More or less as with contemporary first-past-the-post electoral systems, in Rome the voting system was meant to determine the winning opinion rather than to express and debate opinions. The populist-oriented structure of the “untrammelled” Roman populace was the object of Cicero's heavy criticism of democracy (i.e., popular government) as “the force of the mob” in which “passions exercise powerful control over thoughts” (Cicero 2008b, 163; 2008, 93; Millar 2005, 34–53). The problem is, however, that the crowd in the Forum was the result of an institutional organization of the popular presence in the Roman Republic , not of democracy (Millar 2005, 197–226).…”

Section: Democracy Misrepresentedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Competing for Liberty: The Republican Critique of Democracy

Urbinati

2012

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Freedom as non-domination has acquired a leading status in political science. As a consequence of its success, neo-roman republicanism also has achieved great prominence as the political tradition that delivered it. Yet despite the fact that liberty in the Roman mode was forged not only in direct confrontation with monarchy but against democracy as well, the relationship of republicanism to democracy is the great absentee in the contemporary debate on non-domination. This article brings that relationship back into view in both historical and conceptual terms. It illustrates the misrepresentations of democracy in the Roman tradition and shows how these undergirded the theory of liberty as non-domination as a counter to political equality as a claim to taking part inimperium. In so doing it brings to the fore the “liberty side” of democratic citizenship as the equal rights of all citizens to exercise their political rights, in direct or indirect form.

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“…Even if it is misleading to talk of 'caravan cities' or an integrated Silk Road it is still clear that land routes linked the Roman empire with south and central Asia no less than sea-routes. 28 Alexandria and the Egyptians were thus not the only conduit of Rome's Asian trade. With the Parthians we come to a second ethnological context, which we may describe as imperial discourse.…”

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confidence: 99%