Das politische System Athens erfuhr im Zeitraum zwischen 404 und 307 eine Neutarierung, die sich mit den Schlagwörtern „Niedergang“ oder „Krise“ nicht adäquat erfassen lässt. Die umfassende Analyse der öffentlichen Finanzen Athens eröffnet einen neuen Zugang zu dieser Scharnierepoche zwischen Klassik und Hellenismus und erklärt die evidente Veränderung der politischen Ordnung durch die schrittweise und konsensuelle Überführung der breit gelager­ten Deliberationsdemokratie in eine von oben geführte, aber durch Kompetenzzuschreibung und moralisch-politisches Vertrauen in die regierende Elite getragene Zustimmungsdemokratie. Damit war ein adaptierbarer Mechanismus geschaffen worden, wie er sich dann im Hellenismus vieler­orts durchsetzen sollte und für ihn konstitutiv war.

The political system of Athens experienced a rebalancing in the period between 404 and 307, which cannot be adequately captured with the keywords “decline” or “crisis”. The comprehensive analysis of Athens' public finances opens up a new approach to this hinge period between classical and Hellenism and explains the evident change in the political order through the gradual and consensual transformation of the broad-based deliberative democracy into one led from above, but through the attribution of competencies and moral-political trust Consent democracy carried into the ruling elite. Thus an adaptable mechanism had been created, as it was then to prevail in many places in Hellenism and which was constitutive for it.

The political system of Athens experienced a rebalancing in the period between 404 and 307, which cannot be adequately captured with the keywords “decline” or “crisis”. The comprehensive analysis of Athens'' public finances opens up a new approach to this hinge period between classical and Hellenism and explains the evident change in the political order through the gradual and consensual transformation of the broad-based deliberative democracy into one led from above, but through the attribution of competencies and moral-political trust Consent democracy carried into the ruling elite. Thus an adaptable mechanism had been created, as it was then to prevail in many places in Hellenism and which was constitutive for it.

Das politische System Athens erfuhr im Zeitraum zwischen 404 und 307 eine Neutarierung, die sich mit den Schlagwörtern „Niedergang“ oder „Krise“ nicht adäquat erfassen lässt. Die umfassende Analyse der öffentlichen Finanzen Athens eröffnet einen neuen Zugang zu dieser Scharnierepoche zwischen Klassik und Hellenismus und erklärt die evidente Veränderung der politischen Ordnung durch die schrittweise und konsensuelle Überführung der breit gelager­ten Deliberationsdemokratie in eine von oben geführte, aber durch Kompetenzzuschreibung und moralisch-politisches Vertrauen in die regierende Elite getragene Zustimmungsdemokratie. Damit war ein adaptierbarer Mechanismus geschaffen worden, wie er sich dann im Hellenismus vieler­orts durchsetzen sollte und für ihn konstitutiv war.

The political system of Athens experienced a rebalancing in the period between 404 and 307, which cannot be adequately captured with the keywords “decline” or “crisis”. The comprehensive analysis of Athens' public finances opens up a new approach to this hinge period between classical and Hellenism and explains the evident change in the political order through the gradual and consensual transformation of the broad-based deliberative democracy into one led from above, but through the attribution of competencies and moral-political trust Consent democracy carried into the ruling elite. Thus an adaptable mechanism had been created, as it was then to prevail in many places in Hellenism and which was constitutive for it.

The political system of Athens experienced a rebalancing in the period between 404 and 307, which cannot be adequately captured with the keywords “decline” or “crisis”. The comprehensive analysis of Athens'' public finances opens up a new approach to this hinge period between classical and Hellenism and explains the evident change in the political order through the gradual and consensual transformation of the broad-based deliberative democracy into one led from above, but through the attribution of competencies and moral-political trust Consent democracy carried into the ruling elite. Thus an adaptable mechanism had been created, as it was then to prevail in many places in Hellenism and which was constitutive for it.