TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ceva, Emanuela
A1  - Ferretti, Maria Paola
T1  - Upholding public institutions in the midst of conflicts: the threat of political corruption
T2  - Ethics & global politics
N2  - Scholars and international organizations engaged in institutional reconstruction converge in recognizing political corruption as a cause or a consequence of conflicts. Anticorruption is thus generally considered a centrepiece of institutional reconstruction programmes. A common approach to anticorruption within this context aims primarily to counter the negative political, social, and economic effects of political corruption, or implement legal anticorruption standards and punitive measures. We offer a normative critical discussion of this approach, particularly when it is initiated and sustained by external entities. We recast the focus from an outward to an inward perspective on institutional action and failure centred on the institutional interactions between officeholders. In so doing, we offer the normative tools to reconceptualize anticorruption in terms of an institutional ethics of ‘office accountability’ that draws on an institution’s internal resources of self-correction as per the officeholders’ interrelated work.
KW  - Conflict
KW  - institutional reconstruction
KW  - political corruption
KW  - institutional ethics
KW  - office accountability
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62759
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-627595
SN  - 1654-6369
VL  - 14
IS  - 3
SP  - 163
EP  - 182
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - London
ER  -