Beyond Quid Pro Quo

What's Wrong with Private Gain from Public Office

Bibliographic Data

ID3501088
AuthorsAudrey Stark (0000-0001-7634-0026, University of Toronto, corresponding author), Andrew Stark
Year1997
Volume91
Issue1
Pages108-120
Publication date1997-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2952262
OpenAlexW2330308314
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited17

The longstanding debate over whether officials should be permitted to profit personally from public office has moved to the center of public discourse in the United States. As the HouseEthics Manualput it recently, it is of concern simply when an officeholder "cash[es] in on official position," regardless of whether his or her official performance was in any way impaired as a result. Although the question of private gain from public office is richly implicative of a number of fundamental issues in political theory-in particular the ongoing controversy over where to draw the borders between private and public as well as the nature of official fiduciary responsibility-it has yet to undergo political-theoretic analysis. In what follows, I examine both the conceptual and normative issues emergent in the debate over private gain from public office

Fiduciary · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Public office · Public relations · Sociology · Status quo · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Legal principles and applications · Public Administration

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