Upholding public institutions in the midst of conflicts: the threat of political corruption

  • 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.
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Author:Emanuela Ceva, Maria Paola Ferretti
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-627595
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/16544951.2021.1961379
ISSN:1654-6369
Parent Title (English):Ethics & global politics
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Group
Place of publication:London
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2021/08/04
Date of first Publication:2021/08/04
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2022/03/24
Tag:Conflict; institutional ethics; institutional reconstruction; office accountability; political corruption
Volume:14
Issue:3
Page Number:21
First Page:163
Last Page:182
HeBIS-PPN:49469632X
Institutes:Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0