Elections and Electioneering in Rome: A Study in the Political System of the Late RepublicThe books analyses the Roman electoral system under the late Republic and its impact on the Republican political system as a whole. The political system of the Republic is often described as narrowly oligarchic; all forms of popular participation had little real impact on how the Republic was run. Though this view has been challenged in recent years, the Republican electoral system is still widely regarded as controlled and manipulated by the narrow circle of Roman nobility (among other things, through patronage). This book offers a very different picture: a wide popular electorate, free to choose between upper-class candidates who fiercely competed for the votes of the populace and had to make great efforts in order to win popularity with the common people. Competitive popular elections influenced the whole balance of power between the common people and the elite. The books refers, by way of comparison, to modern electoral systems and their impact on the relations between the people and the social and political elite |
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
The election of Marius to his first consulship | 13 |
Popular participation in the centuriate assembly | 20 |
Largitiones and elections | 26 |
The first propertyclass | 43 |
The Servian assembly | 54 |
The social dimension of elections personal ties and public | 65 |
Patronage and elections floating attendants | 71 |
Freeing the electoral market the impact of the ballot | 124 |
The voting units and the effective secrecy of the voting | 133 |
The ballot and its repercussions | 137 |
Roman elections and politics | 148 |
The unusual election in 50 B C | 155 |
Politicization of elections social norms aristocratic ethos and political | 177 |
Nobility popularity and electoral success | 184 |
Deference | 195 |
The nature of the personal ties definitions and problems | 78 |
Personal ties and public support the testimony of Commentariolum | 84 |
The testimony of Pro Murena | 91 |
The testimony of Pro Plancio | 97 |
Additional testimonies | 103 |
Candidates and voters | 109 |
Notables and apparatchicks | 117 |
Generosity popularity and power | 201 |
The menace of aristocratic radicalism | 207 |
The end of the Republic | 225 |
Bibliography | 235 |
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| כותרת | Elections and Electioneering in Rome: A Study in the Political System of the Late Republic כרך 128 מתוך Einzelschriften], [Historia Historia (Wiesbaden, Germany). Heft 128 Historia (Wiesbaden, Germany).: Einzelschriften, ISSN 0341-0056 כרך 128 מתוך Historia Stuttgart / Einzelschriften: Einzelschriften מהדורה 128 מתוך Historia, Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte: Einzelschriften Historia. Einzelschriften ; Heft 128 כרך 128 מתוך Historia: Steiner |
| מאת | Alexander Yakobson |
| הוצאה | Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999 |
| ISBN | 3515074813, 9783515074810 |
| אורך | 251 עמודים |
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