Equality by lot

Call for 2023 review input

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   Anonymous, on December 8, 2023 at 9:19 pm said:

   A lot of great content this year and a steadily increasing drumbeat of posts. Congrats on what you’re doing Yoram!

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   Anonymous, on December 19, 2023 at 10:13 pm said:

   Not from this year, but this is of interest. Amartya Sen on Athenian democracy:

   “The idea that democracy is an essentially Western notion is sometimes linked to the practice of voting and elections in ancient Greece, specifically in Athens from the fifth century B.C.E. In the evolution of democratic ideas and practices it is certainly important to note the remarkable role of Athenian direct democracy, starting from Cleisthenes’s pioneering move toward public balloting around 506 B.C.E. The term “democracy” derives from the Greek words for “people” (demos) and “authority” (kratia). Although many people in Athens–women and slaves in particular–were not citizens and did not have the right to vote, the vast importance of the Athenian practice of the sharing of political authority deserves unequivocal acknowledgment.”

   Source:
   WHY DEMOCRATIZATION IS NOT THE SAME AS WESTERNIZATION.
   Democracy and Its Global Roots
   By Amartya Sen
   The New Republic Online
   Post date: 09.25.03
   Issue date: 10.06.03

   Click to access Sen-Two%20Pieces%20on%20Democracy.pdf

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