The first duty imposed on
those who now direct society is to educate democracy; to put, if possible,
new life into its beliefs; to purify its mores; to control its actions;
gradually to substitute understanding of statecraft for present inexperience
and knowledge of its true interests for blind instincts; to adapt
government to the needs of time and place; and to modify it as men
and circumstances require. A new political science is needed for a
world itself quite new.
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
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Bryan McCannon
Bryan McCannon is assistant professor of Economics at Wake Forest University. He received
his B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1998 and his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State
University in 2003. His research has been primarily in the field of law and economics, with an
interest in the classical Athenian legal system. His recent research has focused on understanding
the particular mechanism used to punish crimes (as in Socrates’ trial), homicide cases, and jury
composition. His current project provides a new argument for the origination of democracy using
Athens as the motivating historical example.
