Political Corruption Av Emanuela (professor Of Political Theory Professor Of Political Theory University Of Geneva) Ceva, Maria Paola (professor Ad In

From the spread of kleptocracy in Venezuela at the expense of the country''s economy, to President Trump''s appointment of family members to high-ranking White House positions, to President Lukashenko''s desperate stranglehold on power in Belarus, across the world political corruption is rampant¿indeed practically too ubiquitous to keep track of. As these examples illustrate, political corruption is often associated to a variety of instances of abuse of power thateither derive from a vicious trait of individual character, or develop within deeply dysfunctional institutions. To Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti, however, this piecemeal view is inadequate: individual and institutional instances of political corruption have a common root that we can understandonly by treating corruption and anticorruption as a matter of a public ethics of office. Political corruption is the Trojan horse that undermines public institutions from within via an interrelated action of officeholders. Even

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