:This essay challenges conceptions of political corruption that rely on standards external to politics and explores an understanding of corruption as something that is part of the internal policing of politics. The essay draws attention to the multiple, conflicting ideas and principles that contribute to our understanding of corruption but argues that these often generate over-moralized and over-generalized claims and can become corrosive of the compromises and procedures that are central to political rule. The essay shows that recent accounts of political corruption often have highly attenuated understandings of “politics” and are over-expansive in their normative commitments, and argues that how we understand and talk about the corruption of politics is of major significance for the stability and effectiveness of the political orders of Western societies.

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政治腐败

：这篇文章挑战了依赖于政治外部标准的政治腐败概念，并探讨了将腐败理解为政治内部监管的一部分。这篇文章提请注意有助于我们理解腐败的多重、相互冲突的想法和原则，但认为这些往往会产生过度道德化和过度概括的主张，并可能腐蚀作为政治统治核心的妥协和程序。这篇文章表明，最近对政治腐败的描述往往对“政治”的理解高度淡化，并且在其规范性承诺上过于宽泛，