How Tyranny Paved the Way to Democracy: The Democratic Transition in Ancient Greece

摘要: AbstractConsiderable scholarly work has examined the transition to democracy. In this paper, we investigate a path democracy that is very different from typically described. During Archaic period (800–500 BCE), many Greek poleis (city-states) replaced aristocracies with more narrow governing institution—an autocrat known as tyrant. Yet classical scholars have noted, of where tyrants reigned in became among broadest democracies subsequent Classical (500–323 BCE). We analyze data set ancient political regime types and review history best-known order explore why transitory narrowing power—Greek tyranny was institution—can stage for democratization. briefly consider other historical modern examples. Our paper shows an understanding progress toward requires recognizing potential importance nonmonotonic paths.