Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Crisis of the Representative Republic 1
6. Part I. Systemic Corruption and the Material Constitution
7. 1. Corruption as Political Decay 13
8. 2. Elitist Interpretations of the Republic 43
9. 3. On Material Constitutional Thought 102
10. Part II. Plebeian Constitutional Thought
11. 4. Machiavelli on the Plebeian Power to Create and Punish 125
12. 5. Condorcet on Primary Assemblies 144
13. 6. Luxemburg on Popular Emancipation 168
14. 7. Arendt on the Republic of Parties and Councils 184
15. Part III. Anti-oligarchic Institutions for the Twenty-First Century
16. 8. Contemporary Plebeian Thought 219
17. 9. Constitutionalizing the Power of Those Who Do Not Rule 241
18. Epilogue: What Is to Be Done? 265
19. Bibliography 269
20. Index 283