A Challenge For Democracy

Bibliographic Data

ID6288873
AuthorsChristopher Walker (0000-0002-2096-489X), Christopher J Walker (0000-0002-1819-7388), Christopher K Walker (0000-0003-1427-5868), Melissa Aten
Year2018
Volume29
Issue1
Pages20-24
Publication date2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.2018.0001
OpenAlexW2783200563
LanguageEN
Citations received8

With investigative reports focusing greater attention on the lavish lifestyles and illicit finances of certain states' officials and oligarchs, the term "kleptocracy" has become a regular feature of analysis. As the following essays show, this term signifies a problem that reaches from Russia to Malaysia to Equatorial Guinea, and one that poses increasing risk to democracy. Laundering both ill-gotten gains through the global financial system and their reputations through the services of "enablers" in the West, kleptocrats have found ways to successfully game the global system. In today's era of accelerated globalization, the factors driving kleptocracy have gathered force. The world now confronts "kleptocracy 2.0," a multifaceted threat to democracy that requires a coordinated and sophisticated transnational response

Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Term (time · Corruption and Economic Development · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Law

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