Arbeitspapier
Athens – An Incidental Democracy. A case of unintended consequences of institutional change
Around 600 B.C., Athens was ruled by a birth aristocracy. Some 150 years later, the city-state was a "democracy". A rational-actor perspective, as perceived in the new institutional economics, sheds additional light on this intriguing transformation by focussing our attention on the incentives of individual actors, for example. Furthermore, it illustrates the unpredictable nature of the long-run consequences of institutional change. Repeatedly, a result of the intra-elite competition for power was that members of the elite unwittingly contributed to the changes that eventually undermined their own dominant position as a group.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2004:19
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Europe: Pre-1913
- Thema
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institutional change
unintended
democracy
Athens
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Lyttkens, Carl Hampus
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics
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Lund
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2004
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Lyttkens, Carl Hampus
- Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2004
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