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The Elgar Encyclopedia of Corruption and Society, Edited by Luís de Sousa and Susana Coroado, is now out!

Delving into the phenomenology of corruption and its impacts on the governance of societies, this cutting edge Encyclopedia considers what makes corruption such a resilient, complex, and global priority for study.

Entries include a contribution from Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti on Institutional Corruption.

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Valsangiacomo, C. Fighting Political Corruption with the Citizens. Res Publica (2024).

Political Corruption by Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti (2021) presents a deontological account of political corruption, understood as an interactive injustice. The aim of the present contribution is to contextualize the authors’ arguments in relation to democracies and through the lens of democracy theory.

Ceva, E., & Ferretti, M. P. (2023). The interactive wrong of political corruption: A reply to Warren, Santoro and Fabre. European Journal of Political Theory

How is political corruption wrong when it undermines the work in progress of public institutional action? Who should bear responsibility for the corruption of public institutions? Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti address these questions in their response to Mark Warren, Daniele Santoro and Cecile Fabre in the European Journal of Political Theory.

A Symposium on Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti's Political Corruption: The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)

Introduction - Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti

The Duty-of-Office Accountability and Democratic Power – Alice el-Wakil

Political Corruption and Democratic Representatives – Chiara Destri

Can Focusing on the Ethics of Public Office Address the Challenge of Contemporary Political Corruption? – Paul M. Heywood

The Open Texture of Public Institutional Action and Its Corruption: A Response to Destri, el-Wakil, and Heywood - Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti

Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti, (2022). Corruption, Institutional. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht.

What kind of relation holds between the corruption of an institution and that of the officeholders within in? In this new encyclopedia entry on Institutional Corruption the authors offer an essential critical survey of philosophical theories of institutional corruption as developing teleological (§1), substrate (§2), discontinuity (§3), continuity (§4), impartiality (§5), and democratic (§6) explanations of this dysfunction of public institutions.

Emanuela Ceva, "Institutional rules, roles, and the dynamics of public power", Jurisprudence 2022, VOL. 13, NO. 3, 443–448.

What makes public institutions normatively distinctive, if anything? Is there a sense in which the privatisation of the public function corrupts such distinctiveness? If such a sense is there, what exactly makes it worth opposing? These questions offer the coordinates for Chiara Cordelli’s insightful and much needed philosophical discussion of the fast-spreading practical delegation of collectively valuable or useful tasks to private providers.