Edmund Burke, the Warren Hastings Trial, and the Moral Dimension of Corruption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6356179 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Smith (0000-0002-6523-2019), Brian A Smith (0000-0003-2540-0839, Georgetown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 70-94 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1057/palgrave.polity.2300051 |
| OpenAlex | W2006574380 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 4 |
Recent literature dealing with problems of corruption has done much to advance our understanding of how to approach many of the practical issues of combating it. However, this scholarship normally engages in a self-conscious move away from dealing with questions of morality. This essay argues that an explicit invocation of moral language may in some cases aid anticorruption efforts. Edmund Burke's long effort to bring Warren Hastings to justice and expose the corrupt activities of the British East India Company provides one example of how this might be accomplished in a manner somewhat different from the normal mode of prosecuting offenders, and Burke's example suggests that a kind of moral demonstration might prove more effective in mobilizing civil society to combat corruption
Dimension (graph theory · Economic Justice · Language change · Law and economics · Morality · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |