From One System to Another — A Novel in Progress

The story of a woman who moves from a society struggling to establish democracy to one that presents democracy as its foundation, believing that professional competence, integrity, and hard work will finally be sufficient to determine her place.

Over time, however, she begins to recognise familiar mechanisms of power, personal interests, institutional hierarchies, and selective recognition of merit.

The systems may differ in their histories, structures, and declared principles, but the distance between the values they proclaim and the values they practise can be unexpectedly small.