Office Accountability The Open Texture of Public Institutional Normativity

Livre Chapitre de livre Office Accountability The Open Texture of Public Institutional Normativity eng 2026-05-07 author Ceva Emanuela 0000-0002-4422-7667 927123 Service enseignement, recherche, administratif et technique (SdS) (SCSPS) author Ferretti Paola Maria 33964 63-77 10.1093/9780198910497.003.0004 https://academic.oup.com/book/62556 <p>This chapter treats the normative question of good government as an implication of the structural feature of public institutional action characterized by the interrelatedness of institutional roles. It explains why this structural feature of public institutional action matters normatively because it makes officeholders accountable to one another for the way they act in their institutional capacity. It thus pinpoints how public officeholders, in the exercise of their institutional functions, share the interrelated responsibility for the well functioning of their institution. The most important implication of this idea is that public officeholders, by engaging in practices of office accountability, contribute to specify (alongside and beyond statutory regulations) the normative principles that guide their interrelated action in ways that are capable of upholding (specifying, revising, correcting) the <i>raison d’être </i>of their institution. The chapter thus brings to light the hybrid source of public institutional normatively; canvased by institutional design and informed by some moral ideals brought into reflective consonance with the judgements of officeholders as they emerge from their reflective and discursive practices of office accountability.</p> Good government Accountability Governance Normativity Institutions Political Theory Political Philosophy Public Ethics Responsibility Office Dewey 320 Oxford University Press Oxford Swiss National Science Foundation The margins of corruption 209380 CH 189 Institut d'études de la citoyenneté T9 121 Département de science politique et relations internationales T3 false What is Good Government? Nikolas Kirby d005b2b1-23db-4adb-a83c-5ce41ebf968e Book chapter (Published version) Restricted 2026_GoodGovt_OA.pdf 308009 application/pdf 88a3c941de277b0e22e7db6f704325814a7c625077bc58020d51bb5df638d32c restrictedAccess Faculté des sciences de la société / Institut d'études de la citoyenneté Faculté des sciences de la société / Département de science politique et relations internationales

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