The Athenian democracy and the modern democracy

The starting point for discussion in this article was the idea of Robert Dahl, who said that “the Greek democracy, political institutions, although at that time a very innovative, have been ignored or even rejected during the development of modern representative democracy.” The author of this article refers to the history of Athenian democracy and tries to search the answer to Dahl’s thesis. Author of the summary points out that Dahl’s thesis is built on the model of representative democracy polyarchy, while the modern model of deliberative democracy to a large extent refers to the solutions of the Athenian democracy. So finally, author rejects the Dahl`s idea as too hasty and not thought out in the context of the considerations of contemporary deliberative democracy