The Pay System And The Construction Of The Classical Athenian Political System

From fifth Century BC to the 4th century B.C.,Athens introduced payment for Dikasts,the Assembly of people and Dramatic.With “pay” as a clue,in the sequence of time this treatise discuss the problems of salary standard and change,the social status and age of paid citizens,tries to analyze the influence of “pay” on the construction of the classical Athenian political system.The first chapter gives an overview of the subsidy system in classical Athenian.The Dikasts,500 Council,Assembly of people have introduced the allowance system,attract citizen participation in city politics management,by analyzing the level and the number of allowances paid,reveals the allowance system role in democratic politics can not be ignored,and the so called "democracy allowance".The second chapter to the Dikasts allowance as the object of study,analysis of Pericles' s purpose is to make allowance for politicians against Cimon,first revealed the first game conflict.heliaia politicians under the allowance system.And then through the judicial corruption phenomenon of people court allowance after the enactment of the two,revealing the allowance system conflict,namely the poor with the rich(i.e.the contradiction between civilians and nobles);finally,sort out at the end of the fifth Century BC Athens coup,the three conflict reveals the allowance system,democracy and oligarchy representing different interests.Democracy was born in conflict,and the subsidy system provided the conditions for these conflicts.The third chapter studies the development of the subsidy system in the 4th centurybc.The General Assembly allowance,the improvement of Athens' s democratic politics and the development of radical democracy.The implementation of drama allowance for the poor to enter the theater of the "public space" to provide economic protection,Athens to strengthen the awareness of democracy and political culture,from the perspective of cultural awareness of the development of democracy.The last part is the summary of the above problems,and the significance of the subsidy system in the construction of Athens' s democratic political system.On the condition of the stable development of democratic politics in Athens.In the age of Pericles,the conflict caused by the construction of the allowance system of democratic politics;the allowance system and de Moss Martini era,but the radical democratic institutionalization,and this might just cause "democracy" crisis,Athens has become a democracy to death cause.