Can I read An ‘Institution-First’ Conception of Public Integrity on EtoBox?

An ‘Institution-First’ Conception of Public Integrity by Nikolas Kirby is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

What is An ‘Institution-First’ Conception of Public Integrity about?

## Abstract There is an emerging drive to define a new praiseworthy governance goal: a goal that not only implies addressing corruption but going further to establish institutions that are truly worthy of trust. That goal is ‘public integrity’. However, most current accounts of public integrity adopt an ‘officer-first’ approach: defining public integrity primarily as a quality of individual public officers, and only derivatively, if at all, as a quality of public institutions themselves. This article argues that this approach is flawed. Analysing the current debate, it identifies the need to define a role-specific sense of praiseworthy behaviour for public officers. However, it is only possible to define this role-specific sense of praiseworthy behaviour by referring to a public officer's contribution to the overall moral ideal of her institution. Assuming that this ideal itself is a form of public integrity, it then follows that such institutional integrity must be defined ‘first’ in order to then define a public officer's praiseworthy contribution to it second. Substantively, this article argues that ‘public institutional integrity’ is an institution's robust disposition to pursu

Who reads An ‘Institution-First’ Conception of Public Integrity?

Author

Nikolas Kirby

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences