Political corruption: the internal enemy of public institutions

"This book discusses political corruption and 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 and legitimate instit...

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Authors: Ceva, Emanuela (Author) ; Ferretti, Maria Paola (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York , NY Oxford University Press [2021]
In:Year: 2021
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Keywords:
Political corruption
Political ethics
Public Administration > Moral and ethical aspects
Politische Ethik > Politischer Skandal > Verwaltung > Korruption
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: 175675859X
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Summary:"This book discusses political corruption and 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 and legitimate institutions may go off track if the officeholders fail to uphold by their conduct a public ethics of office accountability. Most current discussions of what political corruption is and why it is wrong have concentrated either on explaining and assessing it as a matter of an individual's corrupt character and motives or as a dysfunction of institutional procedures. The book investigates the common normative root of these two manifestations of political corruption as a relationally wrongful practice that consists in an unaccountable use of the power of office by the officeholders in public institutions. From this perspective, political corruption is an internal enemy of public institutions that can only be opposed by mobilizing the officeholders to engage in answerability practices. In this way, officeholders are responsible for working together to maintain an interactively just institutional system"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xi, 217 Seiten
ISBN:9780197567869