Defective Institutions: A Protocol for the Republic - Paperbackby Jacques Lezra (Author) Defective Institutions overturns the basis of institutionalism. Faith in classic institutions exposed as clamorously inadequate by the failure of governance under neoliberalism does not result in greater democracy, greater horizontality, or more equitable living. Nor does trust in the standing of decisions, in the authority of antecedent cases, in the coherence, strength, continuity, or solidity of the institutions that frame