Anatomy of Corruption: Liberal Democracy and the Crisis of the Modern State

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Keywords: bureaucracy, corruption, Liberalism, modern state, popular democracy, US history, US politics

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Darrell Whitman is an Attorney Scholar and founding member of the Global Faultlines community. He recently completed an in-depth, eight-year study into the regulatory system of the US government, which is reflected in this article.

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[1] Adamson, C. (2000) “Tribute, Turf, Honor and the American Street Gang: Patterns of Continuity and Change since 1820.” Theoretical Criminology 2: 57–84.

[2] Baehr, Peter (May 2001) “The ‘Iron Cage’ and the ‘Shell as Hard as Steel': Parsons, Weber, and the Stahlhartes Gehäuse Metaphor in the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.” History and Theory 40 (2): 153–169.

[3] Beard, Charles A. (1913) Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. New York: Macmillan.

[4] Beard, Charles A. (1921) History of the United States. London: Forgotten Books.

[5] Binstein, Michael (1993) Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions. New York: Random House.

[6] Brown, Dee (2007) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York: Picador.

[7] Burgoyne, Arthur (1979) The Homestead Strike of 1892. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

[8] Chaffetz, Jason (2018) The Deep State. New York: HarperCollins.

[9] Colodny, Len (1991) Silent Coup. New York: St. Martin's Press.

[10] Culver, John C. (2000) American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace. New York: W.W. Norton.

[11] Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1961) Farewell Address. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyBNmecVtdU.

[12] Foner, Philip S. (1977) The Great Labor Uprising of 1877. Atlanta: Pathfinder Press.

[13] Genovese, Michael A. and Farrar-Myers, Victoria A. (2016) Corruption and American Politics. Amherst: Cambria Publishers.

[14] Hacker, Andrew, ed. (1965) The Corporation Takeover. New York: Double Day, Anchor.

[15] Hoogenboom, Ari (January 1959) “The Pendleton Act and Civil Service.” The American Historical Review 64 (2): 301–318.

[16] Israel, Jonathan (2002) Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650–1750. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[17] Jacobs, Wilbur R. (February 1978) “The Great Despoliation: Environmental Themes in American Frontier History.” Pacific Historical Review 47 (1): 1–26.

[18] Kinzer, Steven (2013) The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War. New York: Times Books.

[19] Lagarde, Christine (2018) “There's a Reason for the Lack of Trust in Government and Business: Corruption.” The Guardian, London, 4 May. https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2018/05/07/theres-a-reason-for-the-lack-of-trust-in-government-and-business-corruption.

[20] Lewis, James E. (2017) The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

[21] Lofgren, Mike (2016) The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government. New York: Penguin Books.

[22] Maggs, Gregory E. (2007) “A Concise Guide to the Federalist Papers as a Source of the Original Meaning of the United States Constitution.” Boston University Law Review 87: 801–847. https://www.bu.edu/law/journals-archive/bulr/documents/maggs.pdf.

[23] Mitchell, Robert B. (2017) Congress and the King of Frauds: Corruption and the Credit Mobilier Scandal at the Dawn of the Gilded Age. Edinborough: Edinborough Press.

[24] Norris, Pippa (2011) Democratic Deficit: Critical Citizens Revisited. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[25] Ranck, James B. (October 1930) “Andrew Jackson and the Burr Conspiracy.” Tennessee Historical Magazine, Series II, 1 (1): 17–28.

[26] Rawls, John (1999) A Theory of Justice. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.

[27] Richards, Leonard L. (2003) Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

[28] Sandel, Michael (1998) Liberalism and the Limits of Justice. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[29] Sante, Luc (2016) Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

[30] Schmidt, James (2008) “Liberalism and the Enlightenment in 18th Century Germany.” Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society, 6 March.

[31] Seliger, M. (1976) Ideology and Politics. London: Free Press.

[32] Skurzynsk, Gloria (2008) Sweat and Blood: A History of U.S. Labor Unions. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books.

[33] Stewart, David O. (2011) American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America. New York: Simon & Schuster.

[34] Stone, I. F. (1968) In a Time of Torment. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd.

[35] Stone, I. F. 2001. Edelman Trust Barometer. https://cms.edelman.com/sites/default/files/2017–03/2001-Edelman-Trust-Barometer.pdf.

[36] Stone, I. F. 2017. “Leaders, Criminals, Celebrities.” International Consortium of Independent Journalists, 21 January. https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/.

[37] Stone, I. F. (2014) “The Deep State: Hiding in Plain Sight.” Public Broadcasting System, February 21. https://www.pbs.org/video/moyers-company-deep-state-hiding-plain-sight/.

[38] Stone, I. F. n.d. “Transparency International.” https://www.transparency.org/what-is-corruption.