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The Public Administration of Athens and the Making of the Modern Greek State

The Public Administration of Athens and the Making of the Modern Greek State

Casamatta, Joseph M.

Paperback

Ancient GreeceGeneral Political Science

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ISBN13: 9798171227784
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This latest volume in the Genesis of Public Administration series turns the tools of administrative analysis on two governments separated by twenty-four centuries: the participatory state of classical Athens and the austerity governance of modern Greece during the debt crisis. Athens staffed its offices by lot through sortition, vetted every official before service through the dokimasia, audited each one on leaving office through the euthynai, and ran its daily business through the Council of 500. Modern Greece administered a rescue under the supervision of foreign creditors. Reading both as problems in administration rather than episodes in political theory, this book holds each system to a single standard: every administrative achievement carries a human cost, and neither the achievement nor the cost may be permitted to erase the other. The argument gives clear attention to what participation secured and to the hierarchy it rested on, including the labor of women, resident foreigners, and slaves.

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