This paper develops a view of the wrongness of personal political corruption. The latter is wrong even when it has no impact or relations with political institutions. The thought is that instances of personal moral corruption of politicians are wrong to voters because they amount to forcing the latter to be authors, namely responsible, of their representatives’ misdeeds. Political corruption is wrong because it violates citizens’ moral integrity, i.e., their entitlement to abstain from immoral deeds, and to be free of responsibility for them.
L'ingiustizia della corruzione politica. Integrità, rappresentanza e delega democratica / Pellegrino, Gianfranco. - In: RIVISTA ITALIANA DI FILOSOFIA POLITICA. - ISSN 2785-3330. - 4(2023), pp. 75-98. [10.36253/rifp-2277]
L'ingiustizia della corruzione politica. Integrità, rappresentanza e delega democratica
Gianfranco Pellegrino
2023
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This paper develops a view of the wrongness of personal political corruption. The latter is wrong even when it has no impact or relations with political institutions. The thought is that instances of personal moral corruption of politicians are wrong to voters because they amount to forcing the latter to be authors, namely responsible, of their representatives’ misdeeds. Political corruption is wrong because it violates citizens’ moral integrity, i.e., their entitlement to abstain from immoral deeds, and to be free of responsibility for them.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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