Systemic Corruption (eBook)

Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic

Camila Vergara (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
312 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20873-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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. Systemic Corruption argues that the problem cannot be blamed on the actions of corrupt politicians but is built into the very fabric of our representative systems.Camila Vergara provides a compelling and original genealogy of political corruption from ancient to modern thought, and shows how representative democracy was designed to protect the interests of the already rich and powerful to the detriment of the majority. Unable to contain the unrelenting force of oligarchy, especially after experimenting with neoliberal policies, most democracies have been corrupted into oligarchic democracies. Vergara explains how to reverse this corrupting trajectory by establishing a new counterpower strong enough to control the ruling elites. Building on the anti-oligarchic institutional innovations proposed by plebeian philosophers, she rethinks the republic as a mixed order in which popular power is institutionalized to check the power of oligarchy. Vergara demonstrates how a plebeian republic would establish a network of local assemblies with the power to push for reform from the grassroots, independent of political parties and representative government.Drawing on neglected insights from Niccolo Machiavelli, Nicolas de Condorcet, Rosa Luxemburg, and Hannah Arendt, Systemic Corruption proposes to reverse the decay of democracy with the establishment of anti-oligarchic institutions through which common people can collectively resist the domination of the few.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.9.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 21 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Amendment • Antonio Negri • aristocracy • ballot • Bourgeoisie • Capitalism • Cicero • Citizenship • Civil and Political Rights • class conflict • Constituent Power • Constitution • constitutional crisis • Constitutionalism • Constitutional theory • Constitution of the Roman Republic • Corruption • Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution • Critical Legal Theory • Critical theory • Decree • de facto • Deliberation • Democracy • despotism • Dictatorship • Economic Inequality • Election • elitism • Elizabeth Beaumont,Civic Constitution • Emancipation • English constitutional tradition • Evgeny Pashukanis • Exclusion • Forms of Government • Freedom Is Power • freedom of speech • free republic • Ganesh Sitaraman • Government • Hannah Arendt • Harrington • hegemony • history of legal thought • Ideology • Impeachment • Individual and group rights • Inequality • Infrastructure • Institution • Intellectual • Jacques Rancière • James Madison • Jeffrey Edward Green • John P. McCormick • Lawmaking • Lawrence Hamilton • Legislation • Legislature • Legitimacy (political) • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Machiavellian Democracy • Marco Goldoni • Marx • Marxism • material constitution • mixed government • Montesquieu • Multitude • Neoliberalism • Niccolò Machiavelli • oligarchization • Oligarchy • On Revolution • Oppression • Pamphlet • Philip Pettit • Plato Aristotle • Plebeian Council • plebs • Political corruption • Political decay • Political Freedom • Political Party • Political Philosophy • political revolution • political structure • Political System • Politician • Politics • Polybius • popular sovereignty • Populism • Prerogative • Provision (contracting) • public administration • Regime • representative assembly • Representative Democracy • Republic • Republicanism • Requirement • Revolution • Rosa Luxemburg • Rule of Law • Separation of Powers • Shadow of Unfairness • Slavery • Social Class • Sovereignty • Spartacus League • State (polity) • Statute • Suffrage • supermajority • Tax • The Establishment • Tribunate • Tribune of the Plebs • Tyrant • United States constitution • Veto • Voting • voting age • Wealth • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20873-5 / 0691208735
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20873-2 / 9780691208732