In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

Ancient philosopher Plato may have an answer to why only those skilled in statecraft should rule the unskilled COMMENT | ...

The role of good Greek tyrants and aesimnetai in ancient Greece, highlighting leaders like Peisistratus, Polycrates, and Solon.

Opinion: Churches and their strident faiths have been perhaps the most guilty of upsetting democracy by installing chaos and ...

This much was evident in last week’s Greek election – while the share ... the room-mate at Amherst of Antonios Samaras – New Democracy prime minister from 2012-2015!. Having gotten to ...

This year's Athens Democracy Forum, entitled The Moment of Truth, attempted to offer solutions to worldwide challenges to ...

Three Greek opposition parties say they are planning to challenge the conservative government with a censure motion over its ...

it is one of the primary sources on which our understanding of ancient Athens is based and provides a unique insight into just how Athenian democracy understood itself. In the speech Pericles ...

Nevertheless, as with the general level of democracy in Albania, many serious problems remain. The organization representing the Greek minority, Omonia, and the predominantly Greek political party ...

The Greek government’s nominee for the presidency failed to secure the required majority in the second round of voting on ...

DEMOS - Democracy in Europe and the Mobilization of Society. OVERVIEW. This project focused upon forms of participatory democracy elaborated ‘from below’ and implemented both ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has proposed the current speaker of parliament to be the country’s next president. Constantine Tassoulas, a member of Mitsotakis’ ...