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According to Wikipedia, Josiah Ober is an American historian of ancient Greece and classical political theorist. He is Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor in honor of Constantine Mitsotakis, and professor of classics and political science, at Stanford University. His teaching and research links ancient Greek history and philosophy with modern political theory and practice.

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Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People (1989) (504)
Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (2008) (320)
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved (2006) (309)
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (2015) (247)
Primates and Philosophers (2006) (191)
Democracy and Knowledge (2008) (181)
The Athenian Revolution (2020) (177)
The Original Meaning of “Democracy”: Capacity to Do Things, not Majority Rule (2008) (140)
Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule (1998) (134)
Beyond empowerment: building a company of citizens. (2003) (133)
Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2004) (127)
A Company of Citizens: What the World's First Democracy Teaches Leaders About Creating Great Organizations (2003) (99)
Dēmokratia : a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern (1996) (97)
Political Dissent in Democratic Athens (2011) (89)
Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy (1994) (81)
Fortress Attica: Defense of the Athenian Land Frontier, 404-322 B.C (1985) (66)
I Besieged That Man (2007) (64)
Wealthy Hellas (2010) (60)
Demopolis: Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice (2017) (49)
Democracy's Wisdom: An Aristotelian Middle Way for Collective Judgment (2013) (48)
Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going On Together (2005) (41)
The Demes of Attica 508/7-ca. 250 B.C.: A Political and Social Study. David WhiteheadDemos: The Discovery of Classical Attika. Robin Osborne (1988) (41)
Democracy's Dignity (2012) (37)
'I Besieged that Man': Democracy’s Revolutionary Start (2005) (35)
What the Ancient Greeks Can Tell Us About Democracy (2008) (31)
Quasi-Rights: Participatory Citizenship and Negative Liberties in Democratic Athens (2000) (30)
The Anatomy of Error: Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists (1990) (27)
Socrates and Democratic Athens (2010) (26)
The Craft of the Ancient Historian: Essays in Honor of Chester G. Starr (1985) (26)
Early Artillery Towers: Messenia, Boiotia, Attica, Megarid (1987) (23)
The Debate Over Civic Education in Classical Athens (2001) (22)
Edward Clarke's Ancient Road to Marathon A. D. 1801 (1982) (21)
Thucydides and the Invention of Political Science (2005) (20)
Public Speech and the Power of the People in Democratic Athens (1993) (20)
Natural capacities and democracy as a good-in-itself (2007) (18)
Law and Political Theory (2005) (17)
Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays (2005) (16)
Greek Horoi: Artifactual Texts and the Contingency of Meaning (1995) (15)
Tyrant Killing as Therapeutic Stasis: A Political Debate in Images and Texts (2003) (13)
Democracy by Design: Basic Democracy and the Self-Organisation of Collective Governance (2018) (13)
Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science (2018) (13)
The Tower of Morality (2006) (12)
WHO NEEDS GREEK? (2003) (12)
SOLON AND THE HOROI: FACTS ON THE GROUND IN ARCHAIC ATHENS (2006) (10)
Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies: The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics (2007) (10)
Inequality in Late-Classical Democratic Athens: Evidence and Models (2017) (10)
1. I, Socrates . . . The Performative Audacity of Isocrates’ Antidosis (2004) (10)
Is Development Uniquely Modern? Athens on the Doorstep (2015) (9)
Thucydides as Prospect Theorist (2012) (9)
HOPLITES AND OBSTACLES (1993) (9)
Knowledge Management Processes and Design Principles for Self-Governing Socio-Technical Systems (2017) (9)
The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity: Meritocratic and civic dignity in Greco-Roman antiquity (2014) (9)
Drama, Political Rhetoric, and the Discourse of Athenian Democracy (2020) (9)
Is development uniquely modern? Ancient Athens on the doorstep (2019) (8)
Public Action and Rational Choice in Classical Greek Political Theory (2009) (8)
Pottery and Miscellaneous Artifacts from Fortified Sites in Northern and Western Attica (1987) (8)
Greg Anderson. The Realness of Things Past: Ancient Greece and Ontological History. (2020) (8)
Development and Political Theory in Classical Athens (2015) (8)
The Instrumental Value of Others and Institutional Change: An Athenian Case Study (2010) (8)
Fortress Attica: Defense of the Athenian Land Frontier 404-322 B. C. (1986) (7)
Thucydides on Athens’ Democratic Advantage in the Archidamian War (2009) (7)
The Uses of Anthropomorphism (2006) (7)
Social Science History, Cultural History, and the Amnesty of 403 (2002) (6)
Knowledge Management for Self-Organised Resource Allocation (2019) (6)
11 The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy (2004) (6)
Equality, legitimacy, interests, and preferences: historical notes on Quadratic Voting in a political context (2017) (6)
Two Ancient Watchtowers above Aigosthena in the Northern Megarid (1983) (6)
Thucydides ' Criticism of Democratic Knowledge (2008) (5)
Political Animals Revisited (2013) (5)
Book Review:The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates: Text, Power, Pedagogy Yun Lee Too (1998) (5)
The Theory of Defense (1985) (5)
Athenian Legacies (2018) (5)
Rock-Cut Inscriptions from Mt. Hymettos (1981) (5)
The Sparta Game: Violence, Proportionality, Austerity, Collapse (2016) (4)
Joseph Schumpeter's Caesarist Democracy (2017) (4)
Aristotle's Politics : Nature, history, and Aristotle's best possible regime (2015) (4)
From Epistemic Diversity to Common Knowledge: Rational Rituals and Cooperation in Democratic Athens (2006) (4)
Socrates and Democratic Athens: The Story of the Trial in its Historical AndLegal Contexts (2008) (3)
What If? 2 (2001) (3)
Defense of the Athenian Land Frontier 404-322 B. C.: A Reply (1989) (3)
Classical Athenian democracy and democracy today: Culture, knowledge, power (2004) (3)
Political Knowledge and Right-Sizing Government (2015) (3)
Relevant Expertise Aggregation : An Aristotelian middle way for epistemic democracy (2012) (3)
In Search of Democracy 4.0: Is Democracy as We Know It Destined to Die? (2019) (3)
Relevant Expertise Aggregation for Policy Selection in Collective Adaptive Systems (2018) (2)
5· How to Criticize Democracy in Late Fifth- and Fourth-Century Athens (2019) (2)
Democratic Athens as an Experimental System: History and the Project of Political Theory (2020) (2)
Interests / preferences , equality / efficiency . Historical notes on Quadratic Voting (2016) (2)
Review Article: The Nature of Athenian Democracy (1989) (2)
Appendix A: Anthropomorphism and Anthropodenial (2006) (2)
Collective Wisdom: Epistemic Democracy in Classical Athens (2012) (2)
Algorithmic Reflexive Governance for Socio-Techno-Ecological Systems (2020) (2)
POLIS : Designing a Visualization Tool for the Research of Complex Sociopolitical Landscapes (2014) (2)
The Trial of Socrates as a Political Trial (2017) (2)
Athenian Democracy, an overview (2018) (2)
THE PROMOTION OF KNOWLEDGE Lectures to mark the Centenary of the British Academy 1902-2002 (2008) (2)
Introduction: DEMOCRACIES ANCIENT AND MODERN (2021) (2)
Epistemic Democracy in Classical Athens: Sophistication, Diversity, and Innovation (2008) (2)
" Chapter One Conditions for Athenian Democracy (1)
Review Article: The Nature of Athenian Democracy: The Athenian Assembly in the Age of Demosthenes (1989) (1)
CHAPTER IV. Ability and Education: The Power of Persuasion (2009) (1)
Comparing Democracies: A Spatial Method with Application to Ancient Athens (2009) (1)
Digging Deeper (2021) (1)
Appendix C: Animal Rights (2006) (1)
Mass and elite revisited (2017) (1)
CHAPTER FOUR. Aggregation: Networks, Teams, and Experts (2008) (1)
The Sparta Game (2018) (1)
Review Article – Philosophy, History, and Democracy (2002) (1)
CHAPTER 4. Justice, Knowledge, Power: Plato Apology, Crito, Gorgias, Republic (2011) (1)
Introduction. Why Dissent? Why Athens? (2011) (1)
Knowledge Management for Democratic Governance of Socio-Technical Systems (2019) (1)
A Theory of Democracy (2017) (1)
Access, Fairness, and Transaction Costs: Nikophon's Law on Silver Coinage (Athens: 375/4 BC) (2009) (1)
What Did ‘Democracy’ Mean to Greek Democrats? (2019) (1)
Democracy, Knowledge, and Moral Change (2012) (1)
CHAPTER 5. Eloquence, Leadership, Memory: Isocrates Antidosis and Areopagiticus (2011) (1)
An Aristotelian Middle Way between Deliberation and Independent-Guess Aggregation (2009) (1)
Democratic Rhetoric: How Should the State Speak? (2014) (1)
Classical Athens as an Epistemic Democracy (2020) (0)
Chapter Two. Classical Athenian Democracy and Democracy Today (2005) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
JHS volume 118 Cover and Front matter (1998) (0)
Princeton/stanford Working Papers in Classics Thucydides and the Invention of Political Science (2005) (0)
Democracy Against Liberalism: Its Rise and Fall. By Aviezer Tucker. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020. 200p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. (2022) (0)
What’s Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship (review) (2009) (0)
Forts and Towers (1985) (0)
Images and Tables (2015) (0)
Why Athens? (2021) (0)
Index of Primary Sources (2019) (0)
Democracy: Quasi-Rights: Participatory Citizenship and Negative Liberties in Democratic Athens (2000) (0)
Chapter Seven. Living Freely as a Slave of the Law: Why Socrates Lives in Athens (2005) (0)
The Road System of Northern Attica (1985) (0)
The Greeks and the Rational (2022) (0)
The Beginnings of the Athenian Democracy: Who Freed Athens? (2008) (0)
Battling Iron Laws (2020) (0)
Chronological Review and Conclusions (1985) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. Assessing Athenian Performance (2008) (0)
Is development uniquely modern? Ancient Athens on the doorstep (2019) (0)
The Economic Resources of Attica (1985) (0)
Studies in Ancient Greek Topography 3 (Roads) and 4 (Passes) (1984) (0)
Changes in the Athenian Military Establishment (1985) (0)
Human Flourishing, Servitude, and Why They Are Incompatible (2022) (0)
Civic Dignity and Other Necessary Conditions (2017) (0)
CHAPTER 1. The Problem of Dissent: Criticism as Contest (2011) (0)
Equality, legitimacy, interests, and preferences: historical notes on Quadratic Voting in a political context (2017) (0)
Athenian Money, Taxes, Revenues (2008) (0)
Preface: Democracy before Liberalism (2017) (0)
Delegation and Expertise (2017) (0)
Books in Review (1991) (0)
A Judicious Study of Discernible Reality (2005) (0)
D'Angour A. The Greeks and the New: Novelty in Ancient Greek Imagination and Experience . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. x + 264. £55/$90 (hbk); £19.99/$33.99 (pbk). 9780521850971 (hbk); 9780521616485 (pbk). (2013) (0)
Routes into Attica (1985) (0)
3. Political Animals: A Theory of Decentralized Cooperation (2015) (0)
Solon’s Web. Constitutional bargains (2019) (0)
Identification of Some Sites in Northwestern Attica (1985) (0)
9. Disorder and Growth, 403–340 BCE (2015) (0)
Legitimacy and Civic Education (2017) (0)
2. Classical Greek Times (2017) (0)
Alain Bresson, The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy. Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States. Transl. by Steven Rendall. Princeton, N. J. 2015 (2017) (0)
Human Capacities and Civic Participation (2017) (0)
The Border Defense System (1985) (0)
8. Golden Age of Empire, 478–404 BCE (2015) (0)
Democratic Lessons: What the Greeks Can Teach Us (2020) (0)
4. Wealthy Hellas: Measuring Efflorescence (2015) (0)
CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: Dispersed Knowledge and Public Action (2008) (0)
[Book Reviews] (0)
The Defensive Mentality at Athens (1985) (0)
Gyges’ Choice Rationality and visibility (2019) (0)
Enter Aristotle (2020) (0)
CHAPTER 6. Political Animals, Actual Citizens, and the Best Possible Polis: Aristotle Politics (2011) (0)
Athenian Military Performance in the Archidamian War: Thucydides on Democracy and Knowledge (2007) (0)
Athenian reactions to military pressure and the defense of Attica, 404-322 B.C. (1980) (0)
10. Political Fall, 359–334 BCE (2015) (0)
Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens. By Jon Hesk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 344p. $65.00 (2003) (0)
The Defense of Attica: The Dema Wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 B. C. (1994) (0)
W. Kendrick Pritchett. The Greek State at War. Part 4. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1985. Pp. ix, 278 (1987) (0)
The Meaning of Democracy in Classical Athens (2017) (0)
Introduction. Josiah Ober and Stephen Macedo (2006) (0)
Appendix II: King, City, and Elite Game Josiah Ober and Barry Weingast (2015) (0)
Fortifications and Democracy in the Ancient Greek World (2017) (0)
A Response to the Comments of Mansbridge, Cammack, McCormick, and Urbinati on Demopolis: Democracy Before Liberalism in Theory and Practice (2019) (0)
The Athenians and their Democracy (2018) (0)
CHAPTER THREE. Competition, Scale, and Varieties of Knowledge (2008) (0)
CHAPTER 2. Public Speech and Brute Fact: Thucydides (2011) (0)
Book Review:The Subversive Oratory of Andokides: Politics, Ideology and Decision-Making in Democratic Athens Anna Missiou (1994) (0)
CHAPTER VII. Conclusions: Dialectics and Discourse (2009) (0)
Appendix I: Regions of the Greek World: Population, Size, Fame (2015) (0)
Keeping It Real (2021) (0)
Power and Rhetoric at Athens: Elite Leadership Versus Popular Ideology (2008) (0)
7. From Tyranny to Democracy, 550–465 BCE (2015) (0)
CHAPTER 7. The Dialectics of Dissent: Criticism as Dialogue (2011) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. Alignment: Common Knowledge, Commitment, and Coordination (2008) (0)
Cleisthenes’ wager Democratic rationality (2019) (0)
Beyond the Acropolis: A Rural Greek Past by Tjeerd H. Van Andel, Curtis Runnels (review) (2018) (0)
2. Ants around a Pond: An Ecology of City-States (2015) (0)
Increasing Eudaimonia (2020) (0)
CHAPTER 3. Essence and Enactment: Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae (2011) (0)
Chronology of Events (2019) (0)
CHAPTER II. History of the Athenian “Constitution”: A Diachronic Survey (2009) (0)
Consent and Political Legitimacy-Penultimate with Abstract (2016) (0)
CHAPTER VI. Status: Noble Birth and Aristocratic Behavior (2009) (0)
5. Explaining Hellas’ Wealth: Fair Rules and Competition (2015) (0)
Appendix: Catalogue of Speeches and Citation Index (2009) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. Codification: Access, Impartiality, and Transaction Costs (2008) (0)
Feet to the Fire? (2021) (0)
CHAPTER V. Class: Wealth, Resentment, and Gratitude (2009) (0)
6. Citizens and Specialization before 550 BCE (2015) (0)
Methods of Waging War (1985) (0)
Institutions, Growth, and Inequality in Ancient Greece (2018) (0)
CHAPTER III. Public Speakers and Mass Audiences (2009) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN. Conclusions: Government by the People (2008) (0)
Advice From Antiquity (2015) (0)
List of Abbreviations (2002) (0)
Chapter 17. Truth at the Door of Public Reason: Response to Cohen and Estlund (2012) (0)
Greek Aims in Fortification. A. W. Lawrence (1983) (0)
Epilogue: Democracy after Liberalism (2017) (0)
1. The Efflorescence of Classical Greece (2015) (0)
CHAPTER I. Democracy: Athenian and Modern (2009) (0)
11. Creative Destruction and Immortality (2015) (0)
From Epistemic Diversity to Common Knowledge: Rational Rituals and Publicity in Democratic Athens (2006) (0)

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The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece