{"id":40062,"date":"2018-11-02T07:16:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T12:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40062"},"modified":"2018-11-02T07:16:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T12:16:58","slug":"sarah-chayes-on-kleptocracy-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40062","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Chayes on Kleptocracy in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/02\/sarah-chayes-on-kleptocracy-in-america\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sarah Chayes on Kleptocracy in America<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>In 2015, Sarah Chayes came out with her book\u00a0<em>Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She has since moved to West Virginia, where she\u2019s writing a book about corruption in the United States. It\u2019s a take off on Alexis de Tocqueville\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Democracy-America-Alexis-Tocqueville\/dp\/0226805360\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1540926971&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=democracy+in+america+alexis+de+tocqueville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Democracy in America.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working title?\u00a0<em>Kleptocracy in America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kleptocracy \u00a0\u2013 as in \u2013 government by thieves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was loading a lot into Thieves of State,\u201d Chayes told\u00a0<em>Corporate Crime Reporter<\/em>\u00a0in an interview last week. \u201cI was saying that violent religious extremism is actually related to governmental corruption, not religious ideology. That was a big thing to try and say. I didn\u2019t want to load this book down with too much controversial analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I did have a chapter at the end that looked at Iceland, Ireland and the United States in the lead up to the 2008 financial disaster. Many of the factors I was identifying in developing countries were visible in the West. And if we weren\u2019t careful to try and put some constraints on systemic corruption in the West, we were going to suffer the same kind of extremist uprising that could take who knows what form. And that we were susceptible to some kind of extremist uprising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that book came out in 2015. I thought there was a little more time. I didn\u2019t expect a version of an extreme reaction so quickly. But that\u2019s what we got in this country in 2016. Much of the vote for Bernie Sanders and the vote for Donald Trump was one of these wrecking ball, smash the system, anti-corruption votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParadoxically, what we came out with in my view is not just more of the same, but a doubling down on the type of corrupt practices that made a lot of people indignant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Chayes on Kleptocracy in America In 2015, Sarah Chayes came out with her book\u00a0Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security. She has since moved to West Virginia, where she\u2019s writing a book about corruption in the United States. It\u2019s a take off on Alexis de Tocqueville\u2019s\u00a0Democracy in America. Working title?\u00a0Kleptocracy in America. Kleptocracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22751,1769,5493,2957,22749,22750,827],"class_list":["post-40062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-corporate-crime-reporter","tag-corruption","tag-counterpunch","tag-kleptocracy","tag-russell-mokhiber","tag-sarah-chayes","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40063,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40062\/revisions\/40063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}