Camila Vergara
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Camila Vergara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Camila |
| FAMILY NAME | Vergara |
| SIGNATURE | VERGARA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia Law School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8012-5414 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Book Roundtable
This is a discussion between Guido Parietti, author of On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics (Oxford University Press, 2022), and four respondents, Laurence Piper, Christine Hobden, Lawrence Hamilton and Camila Vergara, focussed on the notion of power as possibility. This discussion was first held in an online seminar in late 2024, which was broadcast on Theoria 's YouTube channel, and is captured here for readers
The Oligarchic Takeover of the Constituent Process
Fear of Fascism, Hope for Popular Empowerment in Chile
Response to Hélène Landemore’s Review of Systemic Corruption
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Republican Constitutionalism
The article presents a plebeian strand of republican constitutional thought that recognises the influence of inequality on political power, embraces conflict as the effective cause of free government, and channels its anti-oligarchic energy through the constitutional structure. First it engages with two modern plebeian thinkers – Niccolò Machiavelli and Nicolas de Condorcet - focusing on the institutional role of the common people to resist oppre…
The Battle for Chile’s Constitution
Following Chile’s resounding vote to reject the Pinochet-era constitution, the struggle to draft a replacement has split along popular and official lines. Legal theorist Camila Vergara describes how the autonomous energies of the neighbourhood cabildos have been pitted against the conservatism of the ruling bloc
Regaining control over precarity
Corruption as systemic political decay
By offering an analysis of different conceptions of corruption connected to the political regime and contingency in which they developed, the article retrieves a systemic meaning of political corruption. Through the works of Plato, Aristotle, Polybius and Machiavelli, it reconstructs a dimension of political corruption particular to popular governments and also engages with recent neo-republican and institutionalist attempts at redefining politic…
Condorcet on Primary Assemblies
This chapter is devoted to the constitutional thought of Nicolas de Condorcet and the challenge of representing the sovereign demos. It examines Condorcet's proposal for considering the people in its institutional character rather than as an atomized collective subject that can never be made fully present and properly represented. It also refers to Condorcet's proposal of a republican framework in which the ruling power of making laws and decisio…
Systemic Corruption
A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracyThis provocative 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. Systemic Corruption argues that the problem cannot be blamed on the actions of corrupt politicians but is built into the very fabric of our representativ…
The plebeian people of populism
Mainstream definitions of populism have detached the concept from the historical and material conditions in which it arises. Perhaps the most pernicious of these abstractions is the conception of the people. According to most definitions, any politics appealing to "the people" against "the elites" is populist, regardless of their different conceptions of the people, platforms, and relations to liberal democracy, which has led to the conflation of…
Systemic Corruption
Populism as Plebeian Politics
Populism as Plebeian Politics
Republican Constitutionalism
The article presents a plebeian strand of republican constitutional thought that recognises the influence of inequality on political power, embraces conflict as the effective cause of free government, and channels its anti-oligarchic energy through the constitutional structure. First it engages with two modern plebeian thinkers – Niccolò Machiavelli and Nicolas de Condorcet - focusing on the institutional role of the common people to resist oppre…
Corruption as systemic political decay
By offering an analysis of different conceptions of corruption connected to the political regime and contingency in which they developed, the article retrieves a systemic meaning of political corruption. Through the works of Plato, Aristotle, Polybius and Machiavelli, it reconstructs a dimension of political corruption particular to popular governments and also engages with recent neo-republican and institutionalist attempts at redefining politic…
The plebeian people of populism
Mainstream definitions of populism have detached the concept from the historical and material conditions in which it arises. Perhaps the most pernicious of these abstractions is the conception of the people. According to most definitions, any politics appealing to "the people" against "the elites" is populist, regardless of their different conceptions of the people, platforms, and relations to liberal democracy, which has led to the conflation of…
Populism as Plebeian Politics
Condorcet on Primary Assemblies
This chapter is devoted to the constitutional thought of Nicolas de Condorcet and the challenge of representing the sovereign demos. It examines Condorcet's proposal for considering the people in its institutional character rather than as an atomized collective subject that can never be made fully present and properly represented. It also refers to Condorcet's proposal of a republican framework in which the ruling power of making laws and decisio…
Systemic Corruption
A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracyThis provocative 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. Systemic Corruption argues that the problem cannot be blamed on the actions of corrupt politicians but is built into the very fabric of our representativ…
The plebeian people of populism
Mainstream definitions of populism have detached the concept from the historical and material conditions in which it arises. Perhaps the most pernicious of these abstractions is the conception of the people. According to most definitions, any politics appealing to "the people" against "the elites" is populist, regardless of their different conceptions of the people, platforms, and relations to liberal democracy, which has led to the conflation of…
Systemic Corruption
Corruption as systemic political decay
By offering an analysis of different conceptions of corruption connected to the political regime and contingency in which they developed, the article retrieves a systemic meaning of political corruption. Through the works of Plato, Aristotle, Polybius and Machiavelli, it reconstructs a dimension of political corruption particular to popular governments and also engages with recent neo-republican and institutionalist attempts at redefining politic…
The Oligarchic Takeover of the Constituent Process
Fear of Fascism, Hope for Popular Empowerment in Chile
Response to Hélène Landemore’s Review of Systemic Corruption
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Republican Constitutionalism
The article presents a plebeian strand of republican constitutional thought that recognises the influence of inequality on political power, embraces conflict as the effective cause of free government, and channels its anti-oligarchic energy through the constitutional structure. First it engages with two modern plebeian thinkers – Niccolò Machiavelli and Nicolas de Condorcet - focusing on the institutional role of the common people to resist oppre…
The Battle for Chile’s Constitution
Following Chile’s resounding vote to reject the Pinochet-era constitution, the struggle to draft a replacement has split along popular and official lines. Legal theorist Camila Vergara describes how the autonomous energies of the neighbourhood cabildos have been pitted against the conservatism of the ruling bloc
Regaining control over precarity
Book Roundtable
This is a discussion between Guido Parietti, author of On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics (Oxford University Press, 2022), and four respondents, Laurence Piper, Christine Hobden, Lawrence Hamilton and Camila Vergara, focussed on the notion of power as possibility. This discussion was first held in an online seminar in late 2024, which was broadcast on Theoria 's YouTube channel, and is captured here for readers
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Language change (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (4 works) · Democracy (4 works)