Dirty Hands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6228396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Hollis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 385-398 |
| Publication date | 1982-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1234 • E-ISSN: 1469-2112 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007123400003033 |
| OpenAlex | W4254001773 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 2 |
February 13th, 1692, is still remembered in the Western Highlands of Scotland. At 5 a.m. a blizzard was raging down the valley of Glencoe but there were soldiers about. They were two companies of the Argylls under Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, peaceably billetted on the MacDonalds of Glencoe for the past two weeks. The MacDonalds, who had newly sworn allegiance to King William of Orange, had treated them well. Sacred bonds of hospitality had been forged – a reassuring sign that enmities were fading between MacDonalds and Campbells and between Highland supporters of the Stuarts and the new Edinburgh government of 1688. But that was illusion. Captain Campbell had received secret instructions the previous day. ‘Sir, You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy... This you are to put in execution at five of the clock precisely... This is by the King's special command, for the good and safety of the country, that these miscreants be cut off root and branch...’ At five of the clock precisely the Argylls turned on their hosts. Almost forty MacDonalds were killed on the spot and many more, who scrambled away up the bleak walls of the glen, died of exposure in the blizzard. Crofts were burnt, cattle and goods carried off. That was the infamous Massacre of Glencoe. I shall start from here and gradually follow the moral questions which arise into the arena of politics at large
Allegiance · Ancient history · Dagger · Hospitality · Political science · Politics · SWORD · Theology · Tourism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Engineering · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Scottish History and National Identity
L’ingiustizia della corruzione politica. Integrità, rappresentanza e delega democratica
Dirty Hands and the Complicity of the Democratic Public
The Possibility of Special Duties
Machiavellian Variations, or When Moral Convictions and Political Duties Collide
Are ‘Dirty Hands’ Possible
Years of Dirty Hands
Dirty Hands as a ‘Weapon of the Weak’
National Security, Self-rule, and Democratic Action
The Institutional Laundry
The Political Theatre of Dirty Hands in the UK Government Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Seductions of power
Closing the responsibility gap
Integrity in democratic politics
Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation
Political Integrity and Dirty Hands
Moral Distress as a Symptom of Dirty Hands
Reflections on a Crisis
Toward a Realist Ethics of Intervention
Accountability, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Civil-Military Relations
The contract of fallibility
The Problem of Dirty Hands in Politics
Dilemmas of Powerlessness
The virtue of vice
Them’ and ‘us
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2026 (41) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |