Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic
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Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic
By (Author) Camila Vergara
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
30th November 2020
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political science and theory
Political structures: democracy
Corruption in politics, government and society
Constitutional and administrative law: general
320.01
Physical Properties
Hardback
312
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracy This 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 canno
Author Bio
Camila Vergara is a postdoctoral research scholar and lecturer at the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights at Columbia Law School. A former journalist in Chile, she is the coeditor of Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict. Twitter @Camila_Vergara
