Systemic Corruption : : Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic / / Camila Vergara.
A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracyThis provocative book reveals how the majority of modern liberal democracies have become increasingly oligarchic, suffering from a form of structural political decay first conceptualized by ancient philosophers. Sys...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 21 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Crisis of the Representative Republic
- Part I. Systemic Corruption and the Material Constitution
- 1. Corruption as Political Decay
- 2. Elitist Interpretations of the Republic
- 3. On Material Constitutional Thought
- Part II. Plebeian Constitutional Thought
- 4. Machiavelli on the Plebeian Power to Create and Punish
- 5. Condorcet on Primary Assemblies
- 6. Luxemburg on Popular Emancipation
- 7. Arendt on the Republic of Parties and Councils
- Part III. Anti-oligarchic Institutions for the Twenty-First Century
- 8. Contemporary Plebeian Thought
- 9. Constitutionalizing the Power of Those Who Do Not Rule
- Epilogue: What Is to Be Done?
- Bibliography
- Index