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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ceva, Emanuela, author.

Ferretti, Maria Paola, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political corruption.

Poltiical ethics.

Public administration--Moral and ethical aspects.

Public administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 217 pages).

Other Title:

Internal enemy of public institutions

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021].

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

1. What political corruption is

1 Introduction

2 Political corruption as a deficit of office accountability

2.1 Office accountability and institutional functioning

2.2 Office accountability and the conditions of political corruption

3 The many faces of political corruption

4 Political corruption and other controversial uses of the power of office

5 Conclusion

2. Political corruption: individual or institutional?

2 Institutionalist explanations of political corruption

3 A continuity approach

4 A taxonomy of political corruption in institutional practices

4.1 Summative corruption

4.2 Morphological corruption

4.3 Systemic corruption

5 A case of systemic corruption

6 Conclusion

3. How is political corruption wrong?

2 Consequentialist assessments of political corruption

3 The deontological assessment of political corruption as a relational wrong

4 The scope of the interactive injustice of political corruption

5 Impartiality, democratic equality, and office accountability

4. Responsibility for political corruption

2 Retrospective responsibility for political corruption

3 Prospective responsibility for political corruption

4 Responsibility for corrupt institutional practices

5 Responsibility for summative political corruption

6 Responsibility for morphological political corruption

7 Responsibility for systemic corruption

8 Conclusion

5. Opposing political corruption

2 Anticorruption: too narrow or too broad?

3 Standing clear of political corruption

4 Detecting political corruption

5 Prospective anticorruption obligations

6 Conclusion.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780197567883

0197567886

9780197567890

0197567894

9780197567876

0197567878