Political Ethics: A Handbook

Published by Princeton University Press 2022

Political Ethics

A Handbook

Edited by: Edward Hall and Andrew Sabl

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691231310

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About this book

A comprehensive introduction to contemporary political ethics

What is the relationship between politics and morality? May politicians bend moral constraints in the name of political necessity? Is it always wrong for leaders to lie? How much political compromise is too much (or too little)? In Political Ethics, some of the world’s leading thinkers in politics, philosophy, and related fields offer a comprehensive and accessible introduction to key issues in this rapidly growing area of political theory.

In a series of original essays, the contributors examine a range of urgent political problems: lies and deception, compromise and refusal to compromise, the meaning and limits of political integrity, representation and failures of representation, good and bad democratic leadership, the virtues and excesses of partisanship, administrative ethics, political corruption, whistleblowing, legitimate and illegitimate claims of political emergency, and lobbying. What emerges are realistic but demanding ethical standards—and a clear-eyed understanding of the ethical challenges of political life in the twenty-first century.

With contributions by Richard Bellamy, Alin Fumurescu, Edward Hall, Suzanne Dovi and Jesse McCain, Eric Beerbohm, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum, Joseph Heath, Elizabeth David-Barrett and Mark Philp, Michele Bocchiola and Emanuela Ceva, Nomi Lazar, Phil Parvin, and Andrew Sabl.

Author / Editor information

Edward Hall is senior lecturer in political theory at the University of Sheffield and the author of Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory. Andrew Sabl is professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Ruling Passions: Political Offices and Democratic Ethics and Hume’s Politics: Coordination and Crisis in the History of England (both Princeton).

Reviews

“All over the democratic world, citizens are asking how we should expect our politicians to behave. Edward Hall and Andrew Sabl put this question directly to some of the world’s leading political theorists and the answers are challenging and disrupting. Everyone who reads Political Ethics will be left with a new set of standards by which to judge our leaders and to hold them to account.”—Marc Stears, director of the UCL Policy Lab, University College London

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Dirty Hands and Beyond Edward Hall and Andrew Sabl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Lies and Deception Richard Bellamy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2 Compromise Alin Fumurescu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3 Political Integrity Edward Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
4 The Ethics of Representation Suzanne Dovi and Jesse McCain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
5 Leadership and Representation Eric Beerbohm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
6 The Ethics of Partisanship Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
7 The Ethics of Public Administration Joseph Heath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
8 Political Corruption Elizabeth David-Barrett and Mark Philp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
9 The Public Ethics of Whistleblowing Michele Bocchiola and Emanuela Ceva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
10 Political Ethics in the State of Emergency Nomi Claire Lazar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
11 The Ethics of Political Lobbying: Power, Influence, and Democratic Decline Phil Parvin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
Afterword: Political Ethics and Institutional Renovation Andrew Sabl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281