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pol itic al ethics Po liti cal Ethics a handbook edited by edward hall & andrew sabl Princeton University Press Princeton & Oxford Copyright © 2022 by Prince ton University Press Prince ton University Press is committed to the protection of copyright and the intellectual property our authors entrust to us. Copyright promotes the pro gress and integrity of knowledge. Thank you for supporting free speech and the global exchange of ideas by purchasing an authorized edition of this book. If you wish to reproduce or distribute any part of it in any form, please obtain permission. Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to permissions@press . princeton . edu Published by Prince ton University Press 41 William Street, Prince ton, New Jersey 08540 99 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6JX press . princeton . edu All Rights Reserved ISBN 9780691179681 ISBN (pbk.) 9780691241135 ISBN (e- book) 9780691231310 British Library Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available Editorial: Matt Roahl Production Editorial: Sara Lerner Cover Design: Wanda España Production: Erin Suydam Publicity: Kate Hensley and Charlotte Coyne Copyeditor: Cindy Milstein This book has been composed in Arno Pro Printed on acid- free paper. ∞ Printed in the United States of Amer i ca 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 contents Contributors vii Introduction: Dirty Hands and Beyond 1 Edward Hall and Andrew Sabl 1 Lies and Deception 21 Richard Bellamy 2 Compromise 45 Alin Fumurescu 3 Po liti cal Integrity 65 Edward Hall 4 The Ethics of Repre sen ta tion 82 Suzanne Dovi and Jesse McCain 5 Leadership and Repre sen ta tion 104 Eric Beerbohm 6 The Ethics of Partisanship 126 Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum 7 The Ethics of Public Administration 147 Joseph Heath 8 Po liti cal Corruption 170 Elizabeth David- Barrett and Mark Philp v vi contents 9 The Public Ethics of Whistleblowing 193 Michele Bocchiola and Emanuela Ceva 10 Po liti cal Ethics in the State of Emergency 213 Nomi Claire Lazar 11 The Ethics of Po liti cal Lobbying: Power, Influence, and Demo cratic Decline 236 Phil Parvin Afterword: Po liti cal Ethics and Institutional Renovation 265 Andrew Sabl Index 281 contributors eric beerbohm is a professor of government and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy (Prince ton University Press, 2012), which considers the responsibilities of citizens for the injustices of their state. His current book proj ects explore the ethics of electioneering and demo cratic wrong of gaslighting citizens. He serves as the editor of NOMOS, the annual edited volume of the American Society for Po liti cal and L egal Philosophy. richard bellamy is a professor of po liti cal science at University College London. His publications include Liberalism and Pluralism: Towards a Politics of Compromise (Routledge, 1999); Pol itic al Constitutionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2007), which won the David and Elaine Spitz Prize in 2009; Croce, Gramsci, Bobbio and the Italian Po liti cal Tradition (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014); and A Republic of Eur op ean States: Cosmopolitanism, Intergovernmentalism and Democracy in the EU (Cambridge University Press, 2019). With Jeff King, he is currently coediting the Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory. michele bocchiola is a se nior researcher and lecturer at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. His main research interests are in public ethics, especially privacy, the ethics of anticorruption, and institutional trustworthiness. He coauthored a book titled Is Whistleblowing a Duty? (Polity, 2018), and has published articles in the Journal of Po liti cal Philosophy, Journal of Value Inquiry, and Philosophy Compass, among others. emanuela ceva is a professor of po liti cal theory at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Her main research interests are in the normative theory of institutions. Her most recent coauthored books are Is Whistleblowing a vii viii contributors Duty? (Polity, 2018) and Po liti cal Corruption: The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2021). elizabeth david-b arrett is a professor of governance and integrity at the University of Sussex, and director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption. David- Barrett’s key areas of research include corruption at the interface of government and business as well as standards in public life and transnational governance networks to combat corruption. suzanne dovi is an associate professor at the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. She is the author of The Good Representative (Wiley- Blackwell, 2006), a book that explores the ethics of demo cratic repre sen ta tion, and has published extensively on the repre sen ta- tion of historically disadvantaged groups. Her current book proj ect is on misogyny and gender oppression. alin fumurescu is an associate professor in the Department of Po liti cal Science at the University of Houston. He is the author of Compromise: A Po liti cal and Philosophical History (Cambridge University Press, 2013, 2014) and Compromise and the American Founding: The Quest for the People’s Two Bodies (Cambridge University Press, 2019, 2021), and coeditor of Foundations of American Po liti cal Thought: Readings and Commentary (Cambridge University Press, 2021). edward hall is a se nior lecturer in po liti cal theory at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Po liti cal Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2020), and has published articles on realist po liti cal theory and po liti cal ethics. His current book proj ect is on the liberalism of fear in the twenty- first century. joseph heath is a professor in the Department of Philosophy as well as the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of several books, both popu lar and academic. His most recent, The Machinery of Government (Oxford, 2020), is a philosophical inquiry into the normative princi ples that inform the judgment of civil servants. nomi claire lazar is a full professor of politics in the Gradu ate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies (Cambridge University contributors ix Press, 2013) and Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhe toric of Time (Yale University Press, 2019). She is at work on a new book about apocalyptic politics. jesse mcCain is a doctoral student in higher education and the sociology of education at the University of Virginia. He is coauthor of the book chapter “Are Lobbyists Lawyers?” (Routledge, 2016). His research uses qualitative methods and social theory to explore issues of in equality and identity in higher education settings, with a par tic u lar focus on gradu ate training. His current proj ect examines professionalization and identity formation in law school. russell muirhead teaches po liti cal theory at Dartmouth College as the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics. He is the author, with Nancy L. Rosenblum, of A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy (Prince ton, 2019). Muirhead also serves in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. phil parvin is a reader in politics at Loughborough University. He is the author of Po liti cal Philosophy: A Complete Introduction (Hodder, 2012) and Karl Popper (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013) as well as numerous articles on lobbying, democ ratic engagement, and participation. mark philp is a professor of history and politics at the University of Warwick, and an Emeritus Fellow at Oriel College. His recent publications include Radical Conduct: Politics, Sociability and Equality in London 1789–1815 (Cambridge University Press, 2020); Reforming Po liti cal Ideas in Britain: Politics and Language in the Shadow of the French Revolution (Cambridge, 2013); Re- imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions: Amer i ca, France, Britain, Ireland 1750–1850 (Oxford, 2013), coedited with Joanna Innes; and Re- imagining Democracy in the Mediterranean (Oxford, 2018) as well as editions of John Stuart Mill’s essays and his own Autobiography for Oxford World Classics. nancy l. rosenblum is the Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government emeritus. Her books include A Lot of P eople Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy (Prince ton University Press, 2019), coauthored with Russell Muirhead; Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in Amer i ca (Prince ton University Press, 2016); On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship