Political Corruption: The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions

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Acknowledgments
 Introduction
1 What political corruption is
	1. Introduction
	2. Political corruption as a deficit of office accountability
		2.1 Office accountability and institutional functioning
		2.2 Office accountability and the conditions of political corruption
	3. The many faces of political corruption
	4. Political corruption and other controversial uses of the power of office
	5. Conclusion
2 Political corruption: individual  or institutional?
	1. Introduction
	2. Institutionalist explanations of political corruption
	3. A continuity approach
	4. A taxonomy of political corruption in institutional practices
		4.1 Summative corruption
		4.2 Morphological corruption
		4.3 Systemic corruption
	5. A case of systemic corruption
	6. Conclusion
3 How is political corruption wrong?
	1. Introduction
	2. Consequentialist assessments of political corruption
	3. The deontological assessment of political corruption as a relational wrong
	4. The scope of the interactive injustice of political corruption
	5. Impartiality, democratic equality, and office accountability
	6. Conclusion
4 Responsibility for political corruption
	1. Introduction
	2. Retrospective responsibility for political corruption
	3. Prospective responsibility for political corruption
	4. Responsibility for corrupt institutional practices
	5. Responsibility for summative political corruption
	6. Responsibility for morphological political corruption
	7. Responsibility for systemic corruption
	8. Conclusion
5 Opposing political corruption
	1. Introduction
	2. Anticorruption: too narrow or too broad?
	3. Standing clear of political corruption
	4. Detecting political corruption
	5. Prospective anticorruption obligations
	6. Conclusion
 Conclusion