Political corruption : the underside of civic morality / Robert Alan Sparling.

Author
Sparling, Robert Alan, 1975- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
  • ©2019
Description
xv, 250 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Haney Foundation series [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.
    Contents
    • Preface : what is political corruption?
    • Corruption discourse and the ubiquity of distinctions
    • The character of rulers : corruption and integrity in Erasmus's Education of a Christian prince
    • The character of citizens, Part I : virtue and corruption in the Machiavellian republic of distrust
    • The character of citizens, Part II : Étienne de la Boétie on corruption, transparency, and the republicanism of trust
    • Corruption, social change, and the constitution : the case of Viscount Bolingbroke
    • "La vertu même a besoin de limites" : Montesquieu on moderation and integrity in the modern commercial republic
    • Kant, Roberspierre, and the politics of purity
    • Purity and the public official : Max Weber on bureaucratic integrity
    • Conclusion : the abuse of public things.
    ISBN
    • 9780812250879 ((hardcover : alk. paper))
    • 0812250877 ((hardcover : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2018050999
    OCLC
    1047788568
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