DIVIDED POWER AND ΕΥΝΟΜΙΑ: DELIBERATIVE PROCEDURES IN ANCIENT SPARTA

2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Esu
Keyword(s):  
Political Stability ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
Divided Power ◽  
Constitutional Order ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Spartan Mirage

Spartan institutions were pictured as a model of political stability from the Classical period onwards. The so-called Spartan ‘mirage’ did not involve only its constitutional order but also social and economic institutions. Xenophon begins hisConstitution of the Lacedaemoniansby associating Spartan fame with thepoliteiaset up by Lycurgus, which made the Laconian city the most powerful (δυνατωτάτη) and famous (ὀνομαστοτάτη)polisin Greece (Xen.Lac.1.1). In Aristotle'sPolitics, in which the assessment of Sparta is more complex and nuanced, one finds a critique of contemporary Spartan institutions as well as praise for Lycurgus as a great lawgiver who established the laws of Sparta (Arist.Pol.2.1269a69, 2.1273b20). Most other ancient sources often remark upon the unchangeable features of some Spartan institutions as a key aspect of Spartan εὐνομία. Thucydides maintains that, after a long period of war andstasis, the Dorians established excellent laws and Sparta employed the same constitution for more than four hundred years (Thuc. 1.18.1: τετρακόσια καὶ ὀλίγῳ πλείω ἐς τὴν τελευτὴν τοῦδε τοῦ πολέμου ἀφ᾽ οὗ Λακεδαιμόνιοι τῇ αὐτῇ πολιτείᾳ χρῶνται).

The World Underfoot

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hallie M. Franks
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Physiological Reaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Foreign Land ◽  
Social Gathering ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Ideal

In the Greek Classical period, the symposium—the social gathering at which male citizens gathered to drink wine and engage in conversation—was held in a room called the andron. From couches set up around the perimeter of the andron, symposiasts looked inward to the room’s center, which often was decorated with a pebble mosaic floor. These mosaics provided visual treats for the guests, presenting them with images of mythological scenes, exotic flora, dangerous beasts, hunting parties, or the specter of Dionysos, the god of wine, riding in his chariot or on the back of a panther. This book takes as its subject these mosaics and the context of their viewing. Relying on discourses in the sociology and anthropology of space, it argues that the andron’s mosaic imagery actively contributed to a complex, metaphorical experience of the symposium. In combination with the ritualized circling of the wine cup from couch to couch around the room and the physiological reaction to wine, the images of mosaic floors called to mind other images, spaces, or experiences, and, in doing so, prompted drinkers to reimagine the symposium as another kind of event—a nautical voyage, a journey to a foreign land, the circling heavens or a choral dance, or the luxury of an abundant past. Such spatial metaphors helped to forge the intimate bonds of friendship that are the ideal result of the symposium and that make up the political and social fabric of the Greek polis.

Chapter 7.3 Mount Melbourne and Mount Rittmann

2021 ◽  
pp. M55-2018-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvatore Gambino ◽  
Pietro Armienti ◽  
Andrea Cannata ◽  
Paola Del Carlo ◽  
Gaetano Giudice ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Victoria Land ◽  
Geophysical Investigations ◽  
Antarctic Research ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractMount Melbourne and Mount Rittmann are quiescent, although potentially explosive, alkaline volcanoes located 100 km apart in Northern Victoria Land quite close to three stations (Mario Zucchelli Station, Gondwana and Jang Bogo). The earliest investigations on Mount Melbourne started at the end of the 1960s; Mount Rittmann was discovered during the 1988–89 Italian campaign and knowledge of it is more limited due to the extensive ice cover. The first geophysical observations at Mount Melbourne were set up in 1988 by the Italian National Antarctic Research Programme (PNRA), which has recently funded new volcanological, geochemical and geophysical investigations on both volcanoes. Mount Melbourne and Mount Rittmann are active, and are characterized by fumaroles that are fed by volcanic fluid; their seismicity shows typical volcano signals, such as long-period events and tremor. Slow deformative phases have been recognized in the Mount Melbourne summit area. Future implementation of monitoring systems would help to improve our knowledge and enable near-real-time data to be acquired in order to track the evolution of these volcanoes. This would prove extremely useful in volcanic risk mitigation, considering that both Mount Melbourne and Mount Rittmann are potentially capable of producing major explosive activity with a possible risk to large and distant communities.

Institutions, Investment, and Growth in Developing Countries

2020 ◽  
pp. 220-237
Author(s):  
Giovanni Andrea Cornia
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Informal Institutions ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
Formal Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Macroeconomic Stability

Many analyses of long-term development neglect the importance of formal and informal political and economic institutions in developing countries. This chapter discusses the nature of such institutions, their endogeneity and persistence over time as well as their impact on growth, inequality, and political stability. The chapter places particular attention on the institutions that build the market and facilitate economic exchange, and on the public organizations mandated with their enforcement. It then discusses their impact on growth and macroeconomic stability as well as the role played by informal institutions in developing countries where formal institutions are often perceived as a costly obstacle to economic development.

scholarly journals Coupling between the ocean and an ice shelf

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Fox ◽  
Vernon A. Squire
Keyword(s):  
Elastic Plate ◽  
Velocity Potential ◽  
Open Water ◽  
Ocean Waves ◽  
Ocean Wave ◽  
Single Frequency ◽  
Plate Model ◽  
Ice Shelf ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Set Up

The possibility of long-period ocean waves coupling to an ice shelf is investigated. A thick elastic plate model is used for the ice shelf with comparisons made to the simpler thin-plate model. The strain set up on the ice shelf by a normally incident single frequency ocean wave is calculated by completely solving the equations governing the velocity potential for such a system. In the absence of measurements on an ice shelf, existing measurements of long-period strain on an ice tongue are used to estimate the required incident amplitude in the open water to induce the observed oscillations. It is found that the height of seas required indicates that ocean wave driving is a plausible forcing mechanism for observed oscillations.

scholarly journals A view from the margin? Roman commonwares and patterns of distribution and consumption at Interamna Lirenas (Lazio)

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 323-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Launaro ◽  
Ninetta Leone
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Roman Empire ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Widespread Distribution ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Trade And Exchange

There can hardly be any doubt that goods moved in large quantities and over great distances under the Roman empire. This awareness is borne out of a long tradition of archaeological research attesting to the widespread distribution of specific categories of material culture across the full expanse of the Mediterranean and beyond. This phenomenon has been interpreted as a more or less direct result of Rome's military expansion and the fundamental political unification which came with it, bringing about unprecedented conditions which favoured trade and exchange. Scholarship has often stressed the rôle played in this by ‘institutions’: the spread and adoption of a common set of laws, currency and units of measure, fostered by a relatively long period of internal peace and political stability, would have boosted the economic performance of the empire to levels that had not been witnessed before and would not be seen again for many centuries. Indeed, the notion of ‘efflorescence’ has sometimes been employed to describe and explain the kind of economic growth to which this process might have contributed.

scholarly journals The Dilemma of Stability Preservation in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chongyi Feng
Keyword(s):  
Political Stability ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Media ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Stability

Stability preservation ([Formula: see text], weiwen) has been a core policy of the Chinese communist government for the last two decades. China is the only major country in the contemporary world to have set up stability preservation offices at all levels of government alongside the normal administrative institutions for social control. These offices are mainly staffed by the existing personnel of the security apparatus, who in turn exercise control over people and the propaganda apparatus, who exercise control over information. The consequences of the stability preservation policy and the “system of stability preservation” ([Formula: see text], weiwen tizhi) are widely reported in the media, but the academic community is still in the initial stages of understanding the process of this unique phenomenon in China (Sandby-Thomas 2011; Shambaugh 2000; Social Development Research Group 2010; Sun 2009; Yu 2009). Why has the Chinese government pursued this policy? Is stability preservation in China a conventional issue of “law and order”? Are the policy and institutions of stability preservation effective in providing social and political stability? What are the implications of these special arrangements for China and the Chinese communist regime in the long run?

scholarly journals Causes of mountain meadow soil chemical degradation in long-term fertiliser experiment

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 159-166
Author(s):  
M. Kopeć
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Degradation ◽  
Yield Potential ◽  
Meadow Soil ◽  
Botanical Composition ◽  
Nitrogen Forms ◽  
Production Risk ◽  
Mountain Meadow ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Set Up

The fertilising experiment was set up in 1968 on the mountain meadow (720 m a.s.l.) in Czarny Potok near Krynica (20&deg;8&rsquo; E, 49&deg;4&rsquo; N). The experiment was conducted on the acid Cambi soil and comprised objects fertilised with two nitrogen forms and two doses against the background of PK fertilisation, the untreated object, and plots with unilateral P and N fertilisation. The paper concerns 30 years of investigations (1968&ndash;1997) of the effect of different NPK fertilisation on the dynamic of yields and the meadow sward quality against a&nbsp;background of the same treatments. The dynamic of the botanical composition was presented as well as the dynamic of the grassland yield potential with systematic mineral fertilisation and liming. The application of nitrogen fertilisation with the rate of 90 N.ha<sup>&ndash;1</sup> + PK under mountain conditions and systematic liming of the meadow enables to maintain or increase production over the long period, to decrease the production risk and to prevent degradation of the environment and natural resources.

Employing the Critical juncture hypothesis to explain the 2011 Egyptian revolution

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rustam Mussa ◽  
◽  
Raushan Yesbergen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Egyptian Revolution ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Contemporary Development

Our research question involves applying the critical juncture hypothesis formulated by Daron Acemoglu and his co-authors in the series of the articles and books to the context of the 2011 Arab Spring events. Critical juncture hypothesis states that politics and political institutions determine what economic institutions a country has, because the former represents the distribution of political power. Whoever controls political institutions then can set up economic institutions, determining the rules governing economic activities and who will benefit from them. Generated resources are then used in defending these sets of institutions. Though for Acemoglu and his co-authors politics always precedes economics, it is the interplay of political and economic institutions that explain contemporary development of states. The case of 2011 Egyptian Revolution is presented, as the well-documented illustraion of the hypothesis at work.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 341-346
Author(s):  
Ngoc Son Bui
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
Constitutional Change ◽  
Constitutional Democracy ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Constitutional Order ◽  
The End Of History

This conclusion summarizes trends and major points in socialist constitutional change, and addresses broader implications. The socialist constitutions’ history or progress indicates the trend to incremental adaption of core socialist constitutional institutions. In some case, socialist constitutional change leads to partial adoption of some institutions of liberal democracy and market economy. But, the resistance to institutions of liberal constitutional democracy is also vehement in several cases. In addition, the divergence between socialist and liberal political and economic institutions is increasingly sharp. This institutional divergence is mainly due to socialist and local constitutional innovation. The partial adaption, resistance, and local innovation suggest that socialist constitutional change has not converged with “the end of history.” The socialist constitutions are increasingly dissonant documents, which is the condition for continuing evolution of the socialist constitutional order. Socialist constitutional change is connected to the broader global constitutional landscape. Constitutional change to improve the material wellbeing of living conditions is a part of human development.

I. On platinized graphite batteries

1859 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 628-633
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Short Note ◽  
Acid Water ◽  
Uniform Thickness ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Moderate Cost ◽  
Limited Demand ◽  
Mean Time

In a short note communicated to the Royal Society on March 9th, 1857, and which was read on March 19th, reference was made to the voltaic combination that I had adopted for certain telegraphic purposes; namely, zinc-graphite. Graphite in its crude state had for some years been of great service to me, especially for batteries whose resting time is great in proportion to their working time. Since the date of that notice, I have considerably increased the value of graphite for electrical purposes by platinizing it according to the process first described by Mr. Smee, whose platinized silver battery has been long known and much used. The material to which I refer by the term “Graphite,” is the crust or corrosion that is collected from the interior of iron gas retorts that have been long in use. My first crude graphite battery of twelve pairs of plates was set up on April 5th, 1849, for working the telegraph from my residence at Tonbridge to the Telegraph Office about a mile distant. It was charged with sand saturated with diluted acid; and had not been dismounted in March 1851, when I changed my abode. During the interval, the sand was from time to time moistened with acid water or water only. The plates in this case had been roughly chipped out and rubbed on stone into something like shape. In the mean time I had some sets of plates cut at the Locomotive Works, Ashford, and was thus enabled to obtain further results. I forwarded a graphite battery to the Great Exhibition in 1851, for which a prize medal was awarded. The introduction of graphite into anything like general use was for a long period no easy matter, on account of the difficulty of finding any one who would undertake to cut it into plates, its hardness destroying the tools; and the then limited demand did not encourage any one to construct special machinery for the purpose. My wants at length reached the ear of Mr. J. Robinson of Everton, Liverpool, who took the matter thoroughly in hand, and has succeeded perfectly in cutting plates into any form and to comparatively any size, at a very moderate cost, for which I am much indebted to him. I have before me plates 12 inches x 10 inches, of smooth texture and uniform thickness, and have seen some of double that size.

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