Harvard ethicist to discuss ’Just Elections’

Thompson’s most recent book is Just Elections: Creating a Fair Electoral Process in the United States. His lecture topic will be “Election Time: Implications for Redistricting, Voting and Fundraising.”

A founding member of the executive committee of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, headquartered in Bloomington, Thompson has served as a consultant to the joint ethics committee of the South African Parliament, the American Medical Association, the U.S. Senate’s Select Committee on Ethics, the U. S. Office of Personnel Management and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 1990-91, he was a consultant to the special counsel of the Senate Ethics Committee during the investigation of the “Keating Five.”

Thompson’s previous works include Democracy and Disagreement, written jointly with Amy Gutmann; Ethics in Congress: From Individual to Institutional Corruption, a 1995 “best academic book” selection by CHOICE magazine; Political Ethics and Public Office, winner of the American Political Science Association’s award for the “best political science publication in the field of U.S. national policy” in 1987.

Thompson and Gutmann co-edited a casebook, Ethics and Politics, which is now in its third edition.

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