This book presents cutting-edge commentaries by leading scholars that address issues of public ethics in the current period of broken politics and challenged legitimacy.

Auteur

H George Frederickson, Richard K Ghere

Résumé
The first edition of this work, published in 1993, refuted the notion that administrative ethics could not be studied empirically. In this second edition, Frederickson (public administration, University of Kansas) and Ghere (political science, University of Dayton) expand their scope to include both the managerial and individual/moral dimensions of ethical behavior, and add a new section on administrative ethics and globalization. Other sections cover organizational designs that support ethical behavior, market forces that compromise administrative ethics, and unintended outcomes of anticorruption reforms. The book is appropriate for a graduate course in public sector ethics.

Contenu

Preface, 1. Introduction, Part I. The Moral Architecture of Organizations, 2. The Anatomy of Ethical Dysfunction, 3. Public Service Morals and Ethics: Thin and Thick Dilemmas in Routine and Critical Situations, 4. Power and the Ethics of Reform, Part II. Reassessing Corruption in the Twenty-First Century, 5. Searching for Virtue in the Public Life, 6. Oversight and Accountability in Contingency Contracting: Ethical Management in a Conflict Zone, 7. The Beleaguered Ideal: Defending NCAA Amateurism, Part III. Individual Volition in Public Institutions, 8. From Classical Rationalism to Psychological Realism in Ethical Decision-Making, 9. Mirror Images: Conflict of Interest in Politics and Psychology, 10. Guerrilla Government, 11. Tacit Knowledge: The Foundation of Information Management, Part IV. Ethics in Nonprofit Organizations, 12. The Prospects for Reconciling Sector-Specific Ethics in a Context of Blurred Boundaries, Ubiquitous Networks, and Hypermodernity, 13, Ethical Challenges in Nonprofit Organizations: Maintaining Public Trust, Part V. Ethical Issues in Global Contexts, 14. Public Service Ethics in Africa: Renewed Hope for an Integrated Ethics Framework, 15. Words Making Worlds: Rhetoric and Ethics in Global Organiwtions, 16. Conclusion, About the Editors and Contributors, Index