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There are many forms of corruption, including many types of police corruption, judicial corruption, academic corruption, and so on. Indeed, there are at least as many forms of corruption as there are human institutions that might become corrupted. My concern in this chapter is with political corruption, and with a specific form of political corruption, namely noble cause corruption. In the first section I provide a conceptual analysis of corruption,1 in the second an account of noble cause corruption, and in the third and final section I relativize the latter account to political institutions.
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See Zoe Pearson, ‘An International Human Rights Approach to Corruption’, in P. Larmour and N. Wolanin (eds.), Corruption and Anti-Corruption, Canberra: Asia-Pacific Press, 2001.
Dennis F. Thompson, Ethics in Congress: From Individual to Institutional Corruption, Washington, DC: Brookings Institute, 1995, p. 29.
Max Weber, ‘Politics as a Vocation’, in H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (eds.), From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, London: Routledge, 1991.
Michael Walzer, ‘Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands’, Philosophy and Public Affairs 2 (1972/73).
See Mark Bowden, Killing Pablo, London: Atlantic Books, 2001.
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Miller, S. (2007). Noble Cause Corruption in Politics. In: Primoratz, I. (eds) Politics and Morality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625341_6
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