Political Ethics and Public Office

Political Ethics and Public Office
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Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : UOM:49015002682764
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Book Synopsis Political Ethics and Public Office by : Dennis Frank Thompson

Download or read book Political Ethics and Public Office written by Dennis Frank Thompson and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are public officials morally justified in threatening violence, engaging in deception, or forcing citizens to act for their own good? Can individual officials be held morally accountable for the wrongs that governments commit? Dennis Thompson addresses these questions by developing a conception of political ethics that respects the demands of both morality and politics. He criticizes conventional conceptions for failing to appreciate the difference democracy makes, and for ascribing responsibility only to isolated leaders or to impersonal organizations. His book seeks to recapture the sense that men and women, acting for us and together with us in a democratic process, make the moral choices that govern our public life.


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