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42Just interactions in value conflicts: The Adversary Argumentation PrinciplePolitics, Philosophy and Economics 11 (2): 149-170. 2012.This article discusses a procedural, minimalist approach to justice in terms of fair hearing applicable to value conflicts at impasse in politics. This approach may be summarized in the Adversary Argumentation Principle (AAP): the idea that each side in a conflict should be heard. I engage with Stuart Hampshire’s efforts to justify the AAP and argue that those efforts have failed to provide normatively cogent foundations for it. I suggest deriving such foundations from a basic idea of procedural…Read more
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41Political Corruption: The Internal Enemy of Public InstitutionsOxford University Press. 2021."This book discusses political corruption and anticorruption as a matter of a public ethics of office. It shows how political corruption is the Trojan horse that undermines public institutions from within via the interrelated action of the officeholders. Even well-designed and legitimate institutions may go off track if the officeholders fail to uphold by their conduct a public ethics of office accountability. Most current discussions of what political corruption is and why it is wrong have conc…Read more
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40Introduction: The Political Philosophy of Food Policies, Part II: Democracy, Freedom, and PaternalismJournal of Social Philosophy 47 (1): 7-9. 2016.
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38Values, Diversity and the Justification of EU InstitutionsPolitical Studies 57 (4): 828-845. 2009.Liberal theories of justice typically claim that political institutions should be justifiable to those who live under them – whatever their values. The more such values diverge, the greater the challenge of justifiability. Diversity of this kind becomes especially pronounced when the institutions in question are supra-national. Focusing on the case of the European Union, this paper aims to address a basic question: what kinds of value should inform the justification of political institutions fac…Read more
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38Teaching and Learning Guide for: Theories of whistleblowingPhilosophy Compass 15 (4). 2020.This is a support piece to the Philosophy Compass article "Theories of Whistleblowing." It gives indications for some essential bibliography helpful to design a teaching module on the justification of whistleblowing.
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37The Legitimacy of the Supranational Regulation of Local Systems of Food Production: A Discussion Whose Time Has ComeJournal of Social Philosophy 46 (4): 418-433. 2015.By reference to the illustrative case of the supranational regulation of local systems of food production, we aim to show the importance of identifying issues of international legitimacy as a discrete component – alongside issues of global distributive justice – of the liberal project of public justification of supranational collective decisions. Therefore, we offer the diagnosis of a problem but do not prescribe the therapy to cure it.
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36Anything goes? La giustizia procedurale e il disaccordo moralePhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 14 69-85. 2010.Questo articolo offre una difesa dell'approccio procedurale alla giustizia rispetto alle critiche che ne evidenziano l'indeterminatezza normativa. A questo fine, l'articolo inizia con la presentazione di un modello di proceduralismo capace di rivelare la specificità di questo approccio alla giustizia rispetto alle alternative orientate agli esiti. La difesa di questo modello di proceduralismo si avvale di due strumenti che, all’interno del pensiero democratico liberale, sono stati invocati spess…Read more
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34Introduction The Political Philosophy of Food Policies, Part I: Justice, Legitimacy, and RightsJournal of Social Philosophy 46 (4): 398-401. 2015.
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30A Matter of Respect: On Majority‐Minority Relations in a Liberal DemocracyJournal of Applied Philosophy 30 (3): 239-253. 2013.In this article, we engage critically with the understanding of majority-minority relations in a liberal democracy as relations of toleration. We make two main claims: first, that appeals to toleration are unable to capture the procedural problems concerning the unequal socio-political participation of minorities, and, second, that they do not offer any critical tool to establish what judgements the majority is entitled to consider valid reasons for action with respect to some minority. We sugge…Read more
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29Interactive justice: an introductionCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 22 (4): 454-458. 2019.
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28Whistleblowing, or the Resistance to Institutional Wrongdoing from WithinThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 28 53-70. 2021.The article discusses the resort to whistleblowing as a form of resistance to institutional wrongdoing that comes from within an institution. The resort to whistleblowing can take either an individual or an institutional form. As an individual act of resistance, whistleblowing has often been presented as a last resort against institutional wrongdoing whose justification draws on normative arguments for civil disobedience. The institutional form we present in this article shows a nontrivial sense…Read more
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27The good of toleration: changing social relations or maximising individual freedom?Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (2): 197-202. 2020.In this paper, I take issue with Peter Balint’s recent account of the value of toleration as an instrument for securing freedom-maximising outcomes in pluralistic societies. In particular, I question the extent to which the ideal of toleration can be entirely reduced to someone’s intentional withholding of negative interference whose value lies in the protection of individual negative freedoms. I argue that couching the value of toleration entirely in these freedom-maximising terms fails t…Read more
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24Impure procedural justice and the management of conflicts about valuesPolish Journal of Philosophy 2 (1): 5-22. 2008.This paper aims to outline the essential structural traits that a procedural theory of justice for the management of conflicts about values should display in order to combine open-endedness and cogency. To this purpose, it offers an investigation into the characteristics of procedural justice through a critical assessment of John Rawl’s taxonomy of prodeduralism, in terms of perfect, imperfect and pure procedural justice. Given the concessions the two former kinds of proceduralism make to substa…Read more
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21Individual Responsibility under Systemic Corruption: A Coercion-Based ViewMoral Philosophy and Politics 10 (1): 95-117. 2023.Should officeholders be held individually responsible for submitting to systemically corrupt institutional practices? We draw a structural analogy between individual action under coercive threat and individual participation in systemic corruption, and we argue that officeholders who submit to corrupt institutional practices are not excused by the existence of a systemic coercive threat. Even when they have good personal reasons to accept the threat, they remain individually morally assessable an…Read more
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20Book Review: Political Corruption. The Underside of Civic Morality, by Robert Alan Sparling (review)Political Theory 49 (1): 145-149. 2021.Political corruption is a contested concept. Both terms in the concept are the object of controversies in political theory, and concern what corruption is and how it is a politically relevant phenomenon. Political corruption has been contested across time, space, cultures, and philosophical traditions. Usually, political corruption is assumed to involve an exchange between a private corruptor and a public official who pursues her personal interest by abusing her power of office. While this accou…Read more
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16Theories of whistleblowingPhilosophy Compass 2020 (15): 2-10. 2019.“Whistleblowing” has entered the scholarly and the publicdebate as a way of describing the exposure by the memberof an organization of episodes of corruption, fraud, or generalabuses of power within the organization. We offer acritical survey of the main normative theories ofwhistleblowing in the current debate in political philosophy,with the illustrative aid of one of the epitomic figures of awhistleblower of our time: Edward Snowden. After conceptuallyseparating whistleblowing from other form…Read more
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169 The Public Ethics of WhistleblowingIn Edward Hall & Andrew Sabl (eds.), Political Ethics: A Handbook, Princeton University Press. pp. 193-212. 2022.
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15Upholding public institutions in the midst of conflicts: the threat of political corruptionEthics and Global Politics 14 (3): 1961379. 2021.Scholars and international organizations engaged in institutional reconstruction converge in recognizing political corruption as a cause or a consequence of conflicts. Anticorruption is thus generally considered a centrepiece of institutional reconstruction programmes. A common approach to anticorruption within this context aims primarily to counter the negative political, social, and economic effects of political corruption, or implement legal anticorruption standards and punitive measures. We …Read more
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13Inherent Tolerance of the Democratic ProcessJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 23 (3). 2023.Recent attempts at making sense of toleration as an ideal of political morality have focused on how liberal democratic institutions generate political arrangements that protect people’s freedom to “live their life as they see fit.” We show how these views rely on a one-dimensional interpretation of the liberal democratic political project. In so doing, they underestimate an important “interactive” dimension. This dimension concerns what it means for liberal democracies to realize toleration as a…Read more
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12The interactive wrong of political corruption: A reply to Warren, Santoro and FabreEuropean Journal of Political Theory. forthcoming.In this response essay, Ceva and Ferretti reply to their critics and clarify some key aspects of their book. Specifically, the discussion starts by elaborating on the notion of an ethics of office accountability, explaining that the specification of institutional norms of officeholders behaviour is the result of practices of officeholders' interaction (including democratic practices) and reflection. The second theme is the responsibility for political corruption. The authors emphasise the import…Read more
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12Automating anticorruption?Ethics and Information Technology 24 (4): 1-14. 2022.The paper explores some normative challenges concerning the integration of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms into anticorruption in public institutions. The challenges emerge from the tensions between an approach treating ML algorithms as allies to an exclusively legalistic conception of anticorruption and an approach seeing them within an institutional ethics of office accountability. We explore two main challenges. One concerns the variable opacity of some ML algorithms, which may affect public…Read more
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10La sfida della corruzione politica all’etica pubblica. IntroduzioneRivista Italiana di Filosofia Politica 4 5-17. 2023.The article presents political corruption as a problem of public ethics of institutions. It first explains the theory of institutional action that underlies the conception of political corruption as a deficit of “office accountability”. Having clarified the officeholders’ duties in their institutional capacity, it portrays political corruption as an “internal enemy” of public institutions. A discussion follows of the normative implications for an approach to anti-corruption based on the officeho…Read more
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9Reply: what interactive justice in conflict management requiresCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 22 (4): 487-496. 2019.
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9Institutional rules, roles, and the dynamics of public powerJurisprudence 13 (3): 443-448. 2022.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...
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9Institutional Operability: Outward Rule-Following, Inward Role-PlayingAnalyse & Kritik 45 (2): 325-347. 2023.Institutional operability refers to the normative conditions governing the exercise of power of office that makes an institution work. Because institutional action occurs by the interrelated actions of the officeholders, a focus on institutional operability requires the analysis and assessment of the officeholders’ conduct in their institutional capacity. This article distinguishes two perspectives on operability: ‘outward’ and ‘inward.’ The outward view emphasizes predefined instructions for ef…Read more
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4Book Review: Political Corruption. The Underside of Civic Morality, by Robert Alan Sparling (review)Political Theory 49 (1): 145-149. 2021.
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1The challenges of dietary pluralismIn Mary C. Rawlinson & Caleb Ward (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics, Routledge. pp. 93--102. 2017.
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1The Ethics of Anti-Corruption PoliciesIn Andrei Poama & Annabelle Lever (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy, Routledge. 2019.The corruption of public officials and institutions is one of the most obvious problems that affects developed and developing countries alike. Because this view is largely shared, most current studies of this phenomenon—‘political corruption’—have been dedicated either to measuring or counteracting the negative political, social, and economic effects that this form of corruption may have in society. Albeit significant and urgent, these studies have distracted the attention of commentators from …Read more
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