{"id":1763,"date":"2009-09-20T02:10:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T07:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2009-09-20T02:10:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T07:10:38","slug":"whats-at-the-top-of-my-to-read-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/09\/20\/whats-at-the-top-of-my-to-read-list\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s at the Top of My &#8220;To Read&#8221; List?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonkeycage.org\/2009\/07\/athenian_democracy.html\"><img src='https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/files\/2009\/09\/Epidauros-theatre2.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Political Science super blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonkeycage.org\/2009\/07\/athenian_democracy.html\">The Monkey Cage<\/a> introduced me to a book by Josiah Ober, a Political Scientist at Stanford entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/8742.html\">Democracy and Knowledge<\/a> that provides a defense of Athenian Democracy on the grounds that it&#8217;s participatory rule-making processes (for example, the Athenian Council of 500 were chosen by random lot rather than election) provided a greater breadth of perspectives on social issues than our current representative democracy.\u00a0 The argument is that citizens can provide the <em>local knowledge<\/em> needed to make effective decisions and that social networking technologies might help organize citizen input in effective ways.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/chapters\/s8742.html\">sample chapter<\/a> of the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Science super blog The Monkey Cage introduced me to a book by Josiah Ober, a Political Scientist at Stanford entitled Democracy and Knowledge that provides a defense of Athenian Democracy on the grounds that it&#8217;s participatory rule-making processes (for example, the Athenian Council of 500 were chosen by random lot rather than election) provided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}