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The meaning of dēmokratia is widely agreed: ‘rule by the people’ (less often ‘people- power’), where dēmos, ‘people’, implies ‘entire citizen body’, synonymous with polis, ‘city-state’,orπάντεςπολίται, ‘all citizens’. 1 Dēmos, on this understanding, comprised
The meaning of dêmokratia is widely agreed: ‘rule by the people’ (less often ‘people-power’), where dêmos, ‘people’, implies ‘entire citizen body’, synony-mous with polis, ‘city-state’, or pantes politai, ‘all citizens’.1 Dêmos, on this un-derstanding, comprised rich and poor, leaders and followers, mass and elite alike.
Establishing the meaning of kratos requires distinguishing it from two proximate ‘power’ terms: archê, usually translated ‘rule’, ‘government’ or ‘empire’, and to kuros, ‘authority’ or ‘sovereignty’ (adjective kurios, ‘authoritative’ or ‘sovereign’), and one advantage of the Athênaiôn
20 Σεπ 2019 · The meaning of dēmokratia is widely agreed: ‘rule by the people’ (less often ‘people-power’), where dēmos, ‘people’, implies ‘entire citizen body’, synonymous with polis, ‘city-state’, or πάντες πολίται, ‘all citizens’.
25 Μαΐ 2021 · This is a useful and noteworthy attempt to explore the meaning of kratos in the demo-kratia with particular focus on the direct democracy of classical Athens. There is also an effort to link the notion of kratos with contemporary manifestations of ‘exercise of ...
19 Νοε 2020 · If we decompose the Greek word δημοκρατία into δῆμος (the commons, the people) and κράτος (power, rule), we obtain two handy labels for these dimensions: the demos problem and the kratos problem.
Combining the Greek words demos (δήμος) meaning "people" and kratos (κράτος) meaning "power," democracy was the earliest expression of the idea of "power to the people"! It is a form of government where the people rule themselves, typically through elections and elected representatives, as opposed.
