Systemic corruption : constitutional ideas for an anti-oligarchic republic /
This book explores means of combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracy. The 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. The book...
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| 语言: | 英语 |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
[2020]
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvzgb6x2 |
书本目录:
- Introduction : Crisis of the representative republic
- Corruption as political decay
- Elitist interpretations of the republic
- On material constitutional thought
- Machiavelli on the plebeian power to create and punish
- Condorcet on primary assemblies
- Luxemburg on popular emancipation
- Arendt on the republic of parties and councils
- Contemporary plebeian thought
- Constitutionalizing the power of those who do not rule
- Epilogue : what is to be done?