Right & Wrong in American Politics: Popular Conceptions of Corruption

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None of us would want to appear as favoring corruption. But reflection, and even conversation with friends and neighbors, might reveal that we did not all regard the same practices as corrupt or equally blameworthy. In this article, Professor Johnston presents data to show that in their reactions to cases of corruption people go beyond questions of legality to consider the size and type of stakes, mitigating circumstances and motives, and the identities of perpetrators and victims. Many different, and sometime conflicting, conceptions of right and wrong are at work in American politics, a fact that has significant implications for democratic politics and those who study it.

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