Publications
A new project publication by Emanuela Ceva and Patrizia Pedrini: published in the Journal of Social Philosophy
The Margins of Corruption PI, Emanuela Ceva, and Maria Paola Ferretti (AV短视频 of Mainz) have co-authored a . Central to the book is the idea that anticorruption should be understood as a means to uphold institutional well-functioning and support officeholders in fulfilling their roles, rather than merely a system of legalistic surveillance.
Delving into the phenomenology of corruption and its impacts on the governance of societies, this cutting edge Encyclopedia considers what makes corruption such a resilient, complex, and global priority for study.
Entries include a contribution from Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti on Institutional Corruption.
Political Corruption by Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti (2021) presents a deontological account of political corruption, understood as an interactive injustice. The aim of the present contribution is to contextualize the authors’ arguments in relation to democracies and through the lens of democracy theory.

How is political corruption wrong when it undermines the work in progress of public institutional action? Who should bear responsibility for the corruption of public institutions? Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti address these questions in their response to , and in the European Journal of Political Theory.
A Symposium on Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti's Political Corruption: The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions (Oxford: Oxford AV短视频 Press, 2021)
What kind of relation holds between the corruption of an institution and that of the officeholders within in? In this new encyclopedia entry on Institutional Corruption the authors offer an essential critical survey of philosophical theories of institutional corruption as developing teleological (§1), substrate (§2), discontinuity (§3), continuity (§4), impartiality (§5), and democratic (§6) explanations of this dysfunction of public institutions.
What makes public institutions normatively distinctive, if anything? Is there a sense in which the privatisation of the public function corrupts such distinctiveness? If such a sense is there, what exactly makes it worth opposing? These questions offer the coordinates for Chiara Cordelli’s insightful and much needed philosophical discussion of the fast-spreading practical delegation of collectively valuable or useful tasks to private providers.