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Bribery has previously been viewed as a two-party transaction between the bribe-offerer and the bribe-taker. But there is a third party: the one who has a prior claim on the bribe-taker's loyalty. Breaking the first contract in response to the offer of a bribe is alienation of agency (a category that strictly includes bribes): alienation of agency is the additional immorality of bribery beyond any immorality of the act solicited by the bribe.
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Kendall D'Andrade is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago Illinois. His most important publications are ‘Hegel on Affirmative Action’ and ‘Which Logic Should You Use?’.
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D'Andrade, K. Bribery. J Bus Ethics 4, 239–248 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381765
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381765