The Everyday Ethics of Politics

This book addresses a persistent gap in the political ethics literature: The disconnect between political ethics as a theoretical discipline and the ethical dilemmas that politicians face in political practice. It highlights how elected officials navigate ethical challenges in their representative r...

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description This book addresses a persistent gap in the political ethics literature: The disconnect between political ethics as a theoretical discipline and the ethical dilemmas that politicians face in political practice. It highlights how elected officials navigate ethical challenges in their representative roles, providing readers with an accessible view of the ethical landscape that underpins political decision-making. The book features a novel integration of ethical theory and political practice. Through extensive interviews with Swedish parliamentarians, the book captures how politicians reason about key aspects of political ethics—including transparency, honesty and compromise—as well as their views on virtues, vices and the most challenging political dilemmas. By examining ethical challenges from parliamentarians’ own perspectives, the book reveals under-theorized aspects of political ethics and introduces new analytical categories, such as perceived powerlessness, dual ethical spheres and the role of judgment in everyday decisions. In doing so, it tackles foundational challenges in political ethics and opens pathways for normative analysis, primarily in offering an empirical basis for discussions on whether this is indeed how politicians ought to reason about political ethics. The Everyday Ethics of Politics will appeal to researchers and graduate students working in ethics, political philosophy and political theory. By integrating empirical and theoretical approaches in the social sciences, the book also speaks to a broader academic audience interested in methodological integration. Most importantly, it aims to engage citizens and politicians who are concerned with the health of representative democratic governance.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1779902026-06-22T05:50:11Z The Everyday Ethics of Politics Martinsson, Joel Political representation theory Legislative ethics Qualitative interview analysis Democratic accountability Virtue ethics in government Parliamentary decision making Empirical study of ethical dilemmas thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes This book addresses a persistent gap in the political ethics literature: The disconnect between political ethics as a theoretical discipline and the ethical dilemmas that politicians face in political practice. It highlights how elected officials navigate ethical challenges in their representative roles, providing readers with an accessible view of the ethical landscape that underpins political decision-making. The book features a novel integration of ethical theory and political practice. Through extensive interviews with Swedish parliamentarians, the book captures how politicians reason about key aspects of political ethics—including transparency, honesty and compromise—as well as their views on virtues, vices and the most challenging political dilemmas. By examining ethical challenges from parliamentarians’ own perspectives, the book reveals under-theorized aspects of political ethics and introduces new analytical categories, such as perceived powerlessness, dual ethical spheres and the role of judgment in everyday decisions. In doing so, it tackles foundational challenges in political ethics and opens pathways for normative analysis, primarily in offering an empirical basis for discussions on whether this is indeed how politicians ought to reason about political ethics. The Everyday Ethics of Politics will appeal to researchers and graduate students working in ethics, political philosophy and political theory. By integrating empirical and theoretical approaches in the social sciences, the book also speaks to a broader academic audience interested in methodological integration. Most importantly, it aims to engage citizens and politicians who are concerned with the health of representative democratic governance. 2026-06-22T05:50:10Z 2026-06-22T05:50:10Z 2026-06-21T15:59:01Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260621T103021_9781003661498_36 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114353 9781003661498 9781041117513 9781041117506 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177990 eng Political Philosophy for the Real World open access Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003661498 10.4324/9781003661498 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781003661498 9781041117513 9781041117506 Routledge 1 New York open access
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Virtue ethics in government
Parliamentary decision making
Empirical study of ethical dilemmas
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The Everyday Ethics of Politics
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Legislative ethics
Qualitative interview analysis
Democratic accountability
Virtue ethics in government
Parliamentary decision making
Empirical study of ethical dilemmas
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