Political corruption : the internal enemy of public institutions / Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti.

9780197567890 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.

English

1 online resource (232 pages).

JF1081 .C38 2021

364.1323

This text discusses political corruption & anticorruption as a matter of a public ethics of office. It shows how political corruption is the Trojan horse that undermines public institutions from within via the interrelated action of the officeholders. Even well-designed institutions may go off track if the officeholders fail to uphold by their conduct a public ethics of office accountability. Most current discussions of political corruption & of why it is wrong have concentrated either on explaining & assessing it in terms of an individual's corrupt character & motives or a dysfunction of institutional procedures. This book brings out the common normative root of these two manifestations of political corruption. It discusses them as instances of the same relationally wrongful practice that consists in an unaccountable use of the power of office by officeholders in public institutions.

This text discusses political corruption & anticorruption as a matter of a public ethics of office. It shows how political corruption is the Trojan horse that undermines public institutions from within via the interrelated action of the officeholders. Even well-designed institutions may go off track if the officeholders fail to uphold by their conduct a public ethics of office accountability. Most current discussions of political corruption & of why it is wrong have concentrated either on explaining & assessing it in terms of an individual's corrupt character & motives or a dysfunction of institutional procedures. This book brings out the common normative root of these two manifestations of political corruption. It discusses them as instances of the same relationally wrongful practice that consists in an unaccountable use of the power of office by officeholders in public institutions.

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