{"product_id":"political-corruption-the-internal-enemy-of-public-institutions-hardcover","title":"Political Corruption: The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmanuela Ceva\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMaria Paola Ferretti\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 \u003cem\u003epublic ethics\u003c\/em\u003e of office. Political corruption is the Trojan horse that undermines public institutions from within via an interrelated action of officeholders.\u003cbr\u003eEven well-designed and legitimate institutions can veer off track if the officeholders fail through their conduct to uphold a public ethics of office accountability. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmanuela Ceva\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Geneva. She has held fellowships at the universities of Oxford, Hitotsubashi (Tokyo), St Andrews, Montr�al, Hamburg, Harvard, and KU Leuven. In 2018, she was awarded a Fulbright Research Scholarship in Philosophy. She works\u003cbr\u003eprimarily on the normative theory of institutions with a focus on conflict and justice, democracy, and corruption. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eInteractive Justice\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2016), co-author of \u003cem\u003eIs Whistleblowing a Duty?\u003c\/em\u003e (Polity, 2018), and has published articles in such journals as \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolitical Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSocial Philosophy \u0026amp; Policy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePolitics, Philosophy \u0026amp; Economics\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003e Philosophy Compass\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Paola Ferretti\u003c\/strong\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Public Perspective: Public Justification and the Ethics of Belief\u003c\/em\u003e (Rowman and Littlefield).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42161755717767,"sku":"9780197567869","price":61.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/9b673ce3eb712482b8785b80f449cbc2.webp?v=1733283791","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/political-corruption-the-internal-enemy-of-public-institutions-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}