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Political Corruption - The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions (Hardcover)
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Political Corruption - The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions (Hardcover)
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From the spread of kleptocracy in Venezuela at the expense of the
country's economy, to President Trump's appointment of family
members to high-ranking White House positions, to President
Lukashenko's desperate stranglehold on power in Belarus, across the
world political corruption is rampant-indeed practically too
ubiquitous to keep track of. As these examples illustrate,
political corruption is often associated to a variety of instances
of abuse of power that either derive from a vicious trait of
individual character, or develop within deeply dysfunctional
institutions. To Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti, however,
this piecemeal view is inadequate: individual and institutional
instances of political corruption have a common root that we can
understand only by treating corruption and anticorruption as a
matter of a public ethics of office. Political corruption is the
Trojan horse that undermines public institutions from within via an
interrelated action of officeholders. Even well-designed and
legitimate institutions can veer off track if the officeholders
fail through their conduct to uphold a public ethics of office
accountability. This book offers an analytically rigorous
definition of political corruption. It also investigates the common
normative root of its two manifestations-corrupt individual
character, and corrupt institutional mechanisms-as a relationally
wrongful practice that consists of an unaccountable use of the
power of office by officeholders in public institutions. From this
perspective, political corruption must be understood from within,
for it is an internal enemy of public institutions that can only be
opposed by mobilizing the officeholders to remain accountable and
mutually answerable for their conduct. In this way, anticorruption
calls on the officeholders' responsibility to work together to
maintain an interactively just institutional system.
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