Michele Bocchiola
Biographic Data
| ID | 1490136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michele Bocchiola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michele |
| FAMILY NAME | Bocchiola |
| SIGNATURE | BOCCHIOLA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pavia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8185-1429 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Office Trust
This paper develops a two‐tiered account of office trust, the distinctive form of trust arising among officeholders within institutions. Shifting from typical accounts that emphasize interpersonal relationships or public trust in institutions, it examines trust internally, among institutional role occupants. I argue that office trust cannot be reduced to personal trust nor to mere reliance on formal obligations or rules. Rather, it emerges when o…
Endogenous institutional trustworthiness
Public debate and scholarly discussions about a crisis of institutional trust focus on an external perspective: declining citizen trust, indicating that institutions lose legitimacy. While important, this perspective does not capture a conceptually distinct and politically salient form of institutional dysfunction occurring inside institutions that can undercut their trustworthiness. We develop an internal perspective on institutional trustworthi…
Institutional Operability
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 outw…
La corruzione politica è sempre moralmente problematica
This essay analyzes Ceva and Ferretti’s theory on the moral wrongness of political corruption. It highlights the significance of the concept of “mandate” in regulating the exercise of official power by public officials. In the second part of the essay, the paper discusses cases in which the violation of the terms of mandate may not be enough to conclude that political corruption is always morally problematic
The Distinctiveness of Whistleblowing
Teaching and Learning Guide for
Theories of whistleblowing
Whistleblowing" has entered the scholarly and the public debate as a way of describing the exposure by the member of an organization of episodes of corruption, fraud, or general abuses of power within the organization. We offer a critical survey of the main normative theories of whistleblowing in the current debate in political philosophy, with the illustrative aid of one of the epitomic figures of a whistleblower of our time: Edward Snowden. Aft…
Personal Trust, Public Accountability, and the Justification of Whistleblowing
Theories of whistleblowing
Whistleblowing" has entered the scholarly and the public debate as a way of describing the exposure by the member of an organization of episodes of corruption, fraud, or general abuses of power within the organization. We offer a critical survey of the main normative theories of whistleblowing in the current debate in political philosophy, with the illustrative aid of one of the epitomic figures of a whistleblower of our time: Edward Snowden. Aft…
Personal Trust, Public Accountability, and the Justification of Whistleblowing
Personal Trust, Public Accountability, and the Justification of Whistleblowing
The Distinctiveness of Whistleblowing
Teaching and Learning Guide for
Theories of whistleblowing
Whistleblowing" has entered the scholarly and the public debate as a way of describing the exposure by the member of an organization of episodes of corruption, fraud, or general abuses of power within the organization. We offer a critical survey of the main normative theories of whistleblowing in the current debate in political philosophy, with the illustrative aid of one of the epitomic figures of a whistleblower of our time: Edward Snowden. Aft…
Institutional Operability
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 outw…
La corruzione politica è sempre moralmente problematica
This essay analyzes Ceva and Ferretti’s theory on the moral wrongness of political corruption. It highlights the significance of the concept of “mandate” in regulating the exercise of official power by public officials. In the second part of the essay, the paper discusses cases in which the violation of the terms of mandate may not be enough to conclude that political corruption is always morally problematic
Office Trust
This paper develops a two‐tiered account of office trust, the distinctive form of trust arising among officeholders within institutions. Shifting from typical accounts that emphasize interpersonal relationships or public trust in institutions, it examines trust internally, among institutional role occupants. I argue that office trust cannot be reduced to personal trust nor to mere reliance on formal obligations or rules. Rather, it emerges when o…
Endogenous institutional trustworthiness
Public debate and scholarly discussions about a crisis of institutional trust focus on an external perspective: declining citizen trust, indicating that institutions lose legitimacy. While important, this perspective does not capture a conceptually distinct and politically salient form of institutional dysfunction occurring inside institutions that can undercut their trustworthiness. We develop an internal perspective on institutional trustworthi…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Ethics in Business and Education (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Normative (3 works)