Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business, and Healthcare

by Dennis F. Thompson

Dennis Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. Thompson suggests that we stop thinking about public ethics in terms of individual vices (such as selfishness or sexual misconduct) and start thinking about it in terms of institutional vices (such as abuse of power and lack of accountability).

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First published September 1, 2004