Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science
Mirko Canevaro, Andrew Erskine, Benjamin Gray, and Josiah Ober
Abstract
Social scientists and political theorists have recently come to realize the potential importance of the classical Greek world and its legacy for testing social theories. Meanwhile, some Hellenists have mastered the techniques of contemporary social science. They have come to recognize the value of formal and quantitative methods as a complement to traditional qualitative approaches to Greek history and culture. Some of the most exciting new work in social science is now being done within interdisciplinary domains for which recent work on Greece provides apt case studies. This book features ess ... More
Social scientists and political theorists have recently come to realize the potential importance of the classical Greek world and its legacy for testing social theories. Meanwhile, some Hellenists have mastered the techniques of contemporary social science. They have come to recognize the value of formal and quantitative methods as a complement to traditional qualitative approaches to Greek history and culture. Some of the most exciting new work in social science is now being done within interdisciplinary domains for which recent work on Greece provides apt case studies. This book features essays examining the role played by democratic political and legal institutions in economic development; the potential for inter-state cooperation and international institutions within a decentralized ecology of states; the relationship between state government and the social networks arising from voluntary associations; the interplay between political culture, informal politics, formal institutions and political change; and the relationship between empirical and formal methods of analysis and normative political theory. In sum, this book introduces readers to the emerging field of “social science ancient history.”
Keywords:
Greek history,
Political science,
Social sciences,
Economic history,
Institutional analysis
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781474421775 |
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: January 2019 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421775.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Mirko Canevaro, editor
University of Edinburgh
Andrew Erskine, editor
University of Edinburgh
Benjamin Gray, editor
Birkbeck, University of London
Josiah Ober, editor
Stanford University
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