1. Ethics and good governance.
- Author
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Congleton, Roger D.
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POLITICAL corruption ,POLITICAL ethics ,DEMOCRACY ,PUBLIC opinion ,POLITICAL philosophy ,POLITICAL science - Abstract
Public choice research has revealed a variety of political dilemmas associated with governance that tend to make good governance unlikely. This paper suggests that the good governments that we observe are likely to have cultural or ethical support–support that solves or ameliorates the dilemmas uncovered by public choice research. It demonstrates that five important impediments to good governance can be ameliorated by internalized ethical dispositions. Although good government is not generated by ethical conduct per se, some forms of conduct regarded as ethical are supportive of good governance and arguably prerequisites to it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2020
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