... governments suffer from systemic corruption, a form of political decay that manifests itself as an oligarchization of power in society. The chapter traces the concept of political corruption in Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, Cicero, and Niccolò Machiavelli and offers a critique of the current juridical...

... enduring solution to the systemic corruption of representative systems and the oligarchic domination that inevitably comes with it. Arendt Hannah Condorcet Nicolas de constituent power democracy discrimination liberty Luxemburg Rosa Machiavelli Niccolò plebeian realism realist Chile conflict...

...This chapter traces the intellectual history and institutional iterations of the theory of the mixed constitution that originated as a critique of monocratic constitutions and offered a realist redress for systemic corruption based on the institutionalization of different forms of social power...

... of systemic corruption linked with illicit profit-making that trickled into the majority of state institutions, including the police sector. The subsequent parts of the chapter examine the several phases of regime changes within the Afghan police sector, the repercussions corruption has on the police sector...

...This chapter discusses fiduciary principle in private and public law. Topics covered include transparency and accountability as fiduciary responsibilities, finding solutions to fiduciary breach, the threat posed by systemic corruption to the fiduciary principle, and rules' predominance over...

... Airport Berlin political corruption institutions institutional corruption individual corruption systemic corruption institutionalist theories institutional practice interrelatedness continuity approach public procurement In Chapter 1 , we defined political corruption as a deficit of office...

... retrospective responsibility prospective responsibility answerability accountability systemic corruption In this chapter, we address the question of who is responsible for political corruption. We interpret this question as referring to a practice of “answerability” within the context of a public ethics...

...The influences weighing on SLBs’ behaviour, attitudes, and proclivity towards corruption in environments of systemic corruption are many and difficult to disaggregate. Drawing from fieldwork on corruption in Mexican municipalities, this chapter offers a typology that helps identify different...

...This chapter focuses on Adam Smith's political thought on systemic corruption in an effort to dismiss the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality. It elaborates on the phenomenon surrounding moral corruption and venal corruption. Theory of Moral...

...This chapter tackles Adam Smith's major concerns about the commercial society. According to Smith, instead of the threat of moral corruption, advanced European commercial societies face the threat of political dangers from the merchant and manufacturing classes' systemic corruption. Smith's account...

...This chapter begins by providing a diagnosis for the crisis of democracy based on systemic corruption. After reconstructing from the works of Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, and Niccolò Machiavelli, a notion of systemic political corruption particular to popular governments, it reviews recent...