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Emanuela Ceva  is Professor of Political Theory at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Geneva, where she the holder of an ERC/SNSF Advanced Grant on The Margins of Corruption. She has held fellowships at various institutions worldwide, including: the Center for Human Values of Princeton University; Nuffield College and the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford; Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo; University of St Andrews; Centre de Recherche en Étique de l’Université de Montréal; University of Hamburg; Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics of Harvard University; and KU Leuven. She works primarily on the normative theory of institutions with a focus on democracy, corruption, institutional trust, and the political role of emotions. Her most recent book (co-written with Maria Paola Ferretti) is Political Corruption. The Internal Enemy of Public Institutions, (Oxford University Press 2021). She is a founding member of the Swiss Political Theory Network.