Legal But Corrupt - A New Perspective on Public Ethics

This book explains why it is important to identify legally accepted corruption and provides a series of examples of corruption using this perspective. It argues that political corruption is the exclusion of those who are affected by a particular policy and that democratic inclusion and engagement are central to public integrity.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: What's Corrupt?, Frank Anechiarico
Chapter 2: Doubling Down on Derivatives: The Legal but Corrupt Exploitation of the Fallout from the Great Recession, Danny L. Balfour and Guy B. Adams
Chapter 3: Shaping the State to Private Purposes: A Comparison of Conflicts of Interest in the United States and Sweden, Staffan Andersson and Frank Anechiarico
Chapter 4: Whose Corruption? Which Law? Law's Authority and Social Power, Ciarán O'Kelly
Chapter 5: Racialized Policing in New York City: The NYPD and Stop, Question, Frisk, Frank Anechiarico
Chapter 6: Benefit Corporations: A Solution to the Crisis of Corporate Legitimacy?, Lydia Segal
Chapter 7: Inclusion, Accountability and the Reform of Legal Corruption, Frank Anechiarico
Appendix A: The Politics of the Swedish Nursing Home Scandal
Appendix B: Benchmark Analysis from the Rand Study
Appendix C: Conceptual Inventory
About the Contributors

About the author

Frank Anechiarico is professor of government and law at Hamilton College.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Anechiarico
• Assisted by: Frank Anechiarico (Editor), Anechiarico Frank (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2018
• EAN: 9781498536400
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3640-0
• No. of pages: 162
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LAW / Ethics & Professional Responsibility, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, Political corruption, Ethics & moral philosophy, Public Administration, Ethics and moral philosophy, Corruption in politics, government and society, Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct, Legal ethics and professional conduct, Public administration / Public policy