Journal article
Institutional Corruption and the Rule of Law
Les ateliers de l'éthique / The Ethics Forum, Vol.9(1), pp.84-102
Winter 2014
DOI: 10.7202/1024296ar
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Abstract
The literature contains two concepts of corruption which are often confused with one another: corruption as twisted character (pollution), and corruption as disloyalty. It also contains two sites for corruption: the corruption of individuals, and the corruption of entire institutions such as a state or a legislature.
This paper first draws a clear distinction between the pollution and disloyalty concepts of corruption in the individual context, and then defends a conception of disloyalty corruption according to which the distinguishing feature is an agent who uses powers delegated to her from her principal as her own. Then, the paper shifts gears to the institutional context, arguing that the best account of institutional corruption in the extant literature is of the pollution kind. It then fills the remaining logical space by laying out a conception of institutional corruption as disloyalty and explaining its moral significance for the political legitimacy of a democracy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Institutional Corruption and the Rule of Law
- Creators
- Paul Gowder - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Les ateliers de l'éthique / The Ethics Forum, Vol.9(1), pp.84-102
- DOI
- 10.7202/1024296ar
- ISSN
- 1718-9977
- eISSN
- 1718-9977
- Publisher
- UNIV MONTREAL, FAC ARTS & SCIENCES
- Language
- English
- Date published season
- Winter 2014
- Date published
- 2014
- Academic Unit
- Law Faculty; Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9983557388002771
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