Resumen de Le peuple et le gouvernement des cités (IVe-VIe siècles)
Julio César Magalhaes de Oliveira
The relations between the people and their leaders were an essential element in the functioning of local politics in late Antiquity, and its study is a necessary step in any inquiry into the government of cities. To understand these relationships, the author considers all the means, institutional or non-institutional, that the majority of the urban population had to influence the government of the cities. For the 4th and 5th centuries, are successively considered: the popular participation in local elections, the intervention of the people in the decision-making process, the integration of plebeians, through the collegia, to the administration of the city and the various forms of collective action. The main objective of this review is to evaluate the continuities and changes in these practices compared to previous eras and to identify the new possibilities for popular participation that have developed in these centuries. In the end, the author turns to the 6th century to consider the consequences of these transformations in what is called the Post-Curial Civic Government.
