CFP: Ethics forum: Corruption and democracy

Submission deadline: May 15, 2013

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Corruption and democracy

Guest Editors : Marc-Antoine Dilhac (Université de Montréal) et Pierre-Yves Néron (Université Catholique de Lille)

The Ethics forum/Les Ateliers de l'éthique invites submissions on corruption in contemporary democratic societies. Submissions will deal with the legal, moral, political, sociological and economical processes that disrupt the normal and ideal functioning of democratic life and undermine public trust. They will also attempt to examine how contemporary democratic theories, especially “deliberative” ones, can (or cannot) help us thinking about corruption.  

In order to fully grasp the complex realities of corruption, scholars need to provide sophisticated accounts of practices like fraud, bribery, nepotism, undue influence, insider trading and so on. But it seems plausible to say that understanding corruption also requires a better analysis of practices and behaviors that are not straightforwardly illegal (or immoral), but that nonetheless undermine the health of our democratic systems. We encourage submissions of papers that explore this line of inquiry.  

Papers will focus on the ethical or normative aspects of the analysis of corruption. Weinvite submissions on the following themes (broadly conceived). 

  • What is corruption? How should we define it?
  • What are the moral, social and political sources of corruption? What are the relations between the empirical and normative analysis of corruption?
  • Is it possible to talk about corruption without “corrupted” agents?
  • How should we think about the responsibility of “private” agents in corruption?
  • How should we conceptualize the relations between individual practices/behaviors and institutional patterns? Is the distinction between “individual” corruption and institutional corruption meaningful?
  • Is democracy itself corruptible?
  • Are dominant contemporary democratic theories, like “deliberative” ones, well-equipped to deal with issues of corruption?                                                       

Submission details:

Submission of abstract (500 words max): May 15th, 2013. Decisions will be made within a month.

Upon notification of acceptance, you will be invited to submit the full paper no later than October 15th, 2013. 

The Ethics Forum is the bilingual journal (French and English) of the Centre for research in ethics of the University of Montreal (CREUM), and publishes two issues per year entirely accessible on the web.


The Ethics Forum celebrated its tenth anniversary last fall with the release of a special issue that you can download here: http://www.erudit.org/revue/ateliers/2012/v7/n3/index.html This issue includes, among other, contributions of researchers from various backgrounds, such as Philip Pettit, Marc Fleurbaey, Ruwen Ogien, Dena S. Davis and Andrew Light.


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Format:

  • Texts from 8 to 15 pages, single space.
  • Font must be Times New Roman, 12 points.
  • Notes will be placed at end of page and not end of text.
  • Include an abstract of 200 words max. in English and French.       

Detailed instructions to authors are available on the journal website. 

Abstract and articles will be submitted via email in .doc format at the following addresses:

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