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Date Posted:
Tuesday April 22, 2003 04:57:24 PM
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This "model" of Athen's democracy is very interesting. But I have some comments:
- This first (greek) democracy was ended/overcome later by the roman empire (sometimes an effective democracy too). Later Athens was more or less a dependant colony of Rome ... Many highly educated doctors, philosophers, artists, theatchers, ... came often as slaves to Rome. The roman empire was much more efficient in commercial, organizational and military aspects; the area of Greece was more the cultural area.
As model for a company I would therefore prefer roman organizations.
- Athen's democracy was only open to free men, not for slaves ...
- The decisions (often by oistrakismos) were sometimes manipulated ...
I wrote an (german) article on a related topic:
"Das Internet eine globale Agora" (http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~risak/dat_prog/doku/agora.html). There you can find some thoughts on democracy and decentralized communication structures.
I think there are some similarities of these two articles and structures and problems today ...
V. Risak
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Dr. Veith Risak
University of Salzburg Austria
Computer Science
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