Acclamation Voting in Sparta: An Early Use of Approval Voting

Charles Girard ()
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Charles Girard: Université François Rabelais de Tours

Chapter Chapter 2 in Handbook on Approval Voting, 2010, pp 15-17 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract An early form of approval voting was arguably used in Ancient Greece, as is described in Plutarch’s account of the elections to the Gerousia, Sparta’s Council of Elders.

Keywords: Early Form; Direct Democracy; Approval Vote; Auditory Evaluation; Individual Voice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02839-7_2

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