Full Text

Turn on search term navigation

Copyright Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) 2009

Abstract

The democracy was not restored spontaneously in Athens, but that was the fruit of an arduous process of social, economic con quests and political reached thanks to the revolutions of we give that, pressed secularly by the eupatridas ones, it rose against the political regime imposed by the primitive religion of the Atica. Thanks to the reforms of Solon and Clistenes, were able to accede to the first political rights, beginning the way by which it would have to journey until obtaining the political power that traditionally they had monopolized the eupatridas ones. With the political ascent of Pericles to the position of strategos and its reforms, the democracy is instituted as form of government of polis, whose use will extend until the Macedonians won to Athens in 322 year B.C. The political system of the direct democracy, during the one hundred fifty years of use in Athens, was sustained on the base of three institutions political-participativas: the Ekklesia, the Boule, and the Dikasterios, in which all the citizens, so that the town directly exerted and without representatives all the sovereign powers, in their hand could take part actively was the destiny of polis. Therefore, the central object of this article is to study its competitions, composition, operation, etc. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

Details

Title
LAS INSTITUCIONES POLÍTICAS DE LA DEMOCRACIA ATENIENSE
Author
García, Héctor Álvarez
Pages
11-43
Publication year
2009
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
ISSN
18869912
e-ISSN
22553436
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1115478607
Copyright
Copyright Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) 2009