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by Emanuela Ceva (Author), Maria Paola Ferretti (Author)
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.
Author Biography
Emanuela Ceva 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
primarily on the normative theory of institutions with a focus on conflict and justice, democracy, and corruption. She is the author of Interactive Justice (Routledge, 2016), co-author of Is Whistleblowing a Duty? (Polity, 2018), and has published articles in such journals as The Journal of
Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy & Policy, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, and Philosophy Compass.
is the author of The Public Perspective: Public Justification and the Ethics of Belief (Rowman and Littlefield).
