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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Political corruption
Beteiligte:
Ceva, Emanuela;
Ferretti, Maria Paola
Erschienen:
Wiley, 2017
Erschienen in:
Philosophy Compass, 12 (2017) 12
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1111/phc3.12461
ISSN:
1747-9991
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AbstractThe corruption of public officials and institutions is generally regarded as wrong. But in what exactly does this form of corruption consist and what kind of wrong does it imply? This article aims to take stock of the current philosophical discussion of the different senses in which political corruption is generally wrong, beyond the specific negative legal, economic, and social costs it may happen to have in specific circumstances. Political corruption is usually presented as a pathology of the public order. Therefore, the senses in which political corruption has been presented as wrong have varied depending on the normative theory of the public order that is presupposed. In this article, we offer a critical presentation of two major interpretations of the wrongfulness of political corruption that draw respectively on a neo‐republican and a liberal account of the public order. Finally, we show how the analytical distinction between these approaches has important normative implications for the identification of relevant cases of political corruption.