Emanuela Ceva (Professor of Politica Professor of Political Theory, Maria Paola Ferretti (Professor ad interim of Political Theory and

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Political Corruption

The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions

Beschreibung

This book makes political corruption an object of public ethics by demonstrating how it is an internal enemy--a Trojan horse--of public institutions. To understand political corruption, Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti argue, we must adopt an internal point of view and look at how officeholders' interrelated conduct may fail the functioning of their institution because of their unaccountable use of their office's powers. Even well-designed institutions may be derailed if the officeholders fail to uphold by their conduct a public ethics of office accountability. Political corruption is one such failure, and it is wrong even when its negative consequences are unclear or debatable. To correct this failure, the book calls on officeholders to oppose political corruption from the inside by engaging in practices of mutual answerability.

Autor

Emanuela Ceva is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Geneva. She has held fellowships at the universities of Oxford, Hitotsubashi (Tokyo), St Andrews, Montréal, Hamburg, Harvard, and KU Leuven. In 2018, she was awarded a Fulbright Research Scholarship in Philosophy. She works primarily on the normative theory of institutions with a focus on conflict and justice, democracy, and corruption. She is the author of Interactive Justice (Routledge, 2016), co-author of Is Whistleblowing a Duty? (Polity, 2018), and has published articles in such journals as The Journal of Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy & Policy, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, and Philosophy Compass. Maria Paola Ferretti is Professor ad interim of Political Theory and Philosophy and a member of the Normative Orders Research Center at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main. Her research interests include contemporary liberalism, democratic participation, and the ethics of public policy. She is the author of The Public Perspective: Public Justification and the Ethics of Belief (Rowman and Littlefield).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780197567869
• ISBN-10: 019756786X
• Artikelnr.: 60684794