Before<i>Turannoi</i>Were Tyrants: Rethinking a Chapter of Early Greek History

Anderson, Greg

doi:10.1525/ca.2005.24.2.173

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“…Critically, for the classical tradition it is not necessarily always a negative state of affairs. 377 Indeed, Lane argues that within some classical approaches tyrants may be viewed as benevolent. 378 Tyrannies offered justice, order and protection from the wealthy in contrast to dictators placed at the pinnacle of a particular regime.…”

Section: Classical Greek Tyrannymentioning

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Global Constitutionalism without Global Democracy (?)

Corradetti

Sartor

2016

SSRN Journal

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The contributions in this volume investigate interconnected aspects of the democratic deficit in global constitutionalism. The commonly shared question is the following: to what extent, if any, a global (or cosmopolitan) shift of international law can proceed absent a transnational democratic check? Some scholars are convinced that this is a real problem since that a 'division of labour' is to be recognized between national and regional/international legal levels, only the first needing a democratic legitimacy. The contributors to this volume, on the contrary tend to share the view that detaching the production of international law from constituent will, as well as from a democratic framework, can indeed undermine constitutional legitimacy. Furthermore, this may open the way to forms of domination that affect also state's democratic institutions from within. What is the way out from this deadlock? How is it possible to tame global constitutionalism in order to avoid a global Leviathan? The collection of essays here presented attempts to conceptualize some of the central challenges affecting contemporary patterns of legal dispersion and fragmentation. They follow a conceptual-historical thread which starts with a modern Kantian understanding of the problem, and unfolds into the discussion of issues of constitutional pluralism, institutional legitimacy and the risk of tyranny. The volume includes analyses of the role of China and the EU, two of the most important actors, even though perhaps at the opposite pole of the global constitutional project.

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Section: Classical Greek Tyrannymentioning

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Global Constitutionalism without Global Democracy (?)

Corradetti

Sartor

2016

SSRN Journal

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“…38 On basileia in Homer and the development of monarchical rule in the Archaic period, see (for important recent contributions, with previous scholarship) e.g. van Wees (1992: 281-298), Anderson (2005), Mitchell (2013: 23-55), Luraghi (2013), Hall (2014: 126-153), Cairns (2015). Taylor (2017) makes the important case that the forms of monarchical power that are later understood as tyrannical are not qualitatively different from previous legitimate forms of basileia.…”

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The Rule of Law as the Measure of Political Legitimacy in the Greek City States

Canevaro

2017

Hague J Rule Law

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This paper explores how a conception of the rule of law (embodied in a variety of legal and political institutions) came to affirm itself in the world of the ancient Greek city states. It argues that such a conception, formulated in opposition to the arbitrary rule of man, was to a large extent consistent with modern ideas of the rule of law as a constraint to political power, and to their Fullerian requirements of formal legality, as well as to requirements of due process. The article then analyses how this ideal was formulated in the Archaic period, and how it became a key feature of Greek identity. Finally, it argues that in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE it came to be used as the measure of the legitimacy of Greek political systems: democracy and oligarchy, as they engaged in an ideological battle, were judged as legitimate (and desirable) or illegitimate (and undesirable) on the basis of their conformity with a shared ideal of the rule of law. Then as now, to quote Tamanaha, 'the rule of law' was 'an accepted measure worldwide of government legitimacy'.

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“…Critically, for the classical tradition it is not necessarily always a negative state of affairs. 12 Indeed, Lane argues that within some classical approaches tyrants may be viewed as benevolent. 13 Tyrannies offered justice, order and protection from the wealthy in contrast to dictators placed at the pinnacle of a particular regime.…”

Section: Classical Greek Tyrannymentioning

confidence: 99%

Tyranny and Constitutionalism beyond the State

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Globalisation and Governance

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BeforeTurannoiWere Tyrants: Rethinking a Chapter of Early Greek History

Cited by 56 publications

References 44 publications

Global Constitutionalism without Global Democracy (?)

Global Constitutionalism without Global Democracy (?)

The Rule of Law as the Measure of Political Legitimacy in the Greek City States

Tyranny and Constitutionalism beyond the State

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