Abstract
Abstract This chapter introduces an analysis of political corruption and anticorruption within the framework of a public ethics of office accountability. Most current discussions of what political corruption is and why it is wrong have concentrated either on explaining and assessing it as a matter of an individual’s corrupt character and motives or as a dysfunction of institutional procedures. Little scholarly attention has been devoted to discussing the relation between these two dimensions. This book fills this gap by showing the importance of understanding that political corruption is a failure of the role-based interactions between officeholders. Political corruption is thus a matter of public ethics because it is a problem inherent to the functioning of public institutions, understood as a system of interrelated embodied roles, and the conduct of the officeholders occupying those roles.
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