Political Ethics in Illiberal Regimes

Political ethics is about how to act in response to the political-ethical challenges that confront us in everyday life. This book argues that the experience of living in illiberal regimes calls for the rethinking of common ways of understanding political ethics.

It offers a Williamsian liberal-realist framework to explain how we should make sense of political ethics by focusing on the variety of normative contexts that shape political agency. It also demonstrates the usefulness of this framework by exploring the intricacies of dealing with the conflicting demands of various political offices in illiberal regimes. These demands spring from the specific constitutional purpose of these offices, the linkage of the office-holder qua office-holder with a great variety of people as well as from the constraints of the office-holder's personal integrity.