Roundtable (Author Meets Critics): Camila Vergara, Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic (Princeton University Press 2020)

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

This provocative book 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.

Section

• 45. Political Theory: Critical & Normative

Chair

• Miguel Vatter, Flinders University of South Australia

Participants

• Annelien De Dijn, Utrecht University

• Gordon Arlen, Goethe University Frankfurt

• Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo, Rutgers University-Newark

• Igor Shoikhedbrod, University of Toronto

• Natasha Piano, University of Chicago

• Camila Vergara, Columbia University