Ethics in Public ManagementThe groundbreaking "Ethics in Public Administration" set the agenda for a decade's worth of research in the theory and practice of ethics in the public sector. This long-awaited follow-up volume represents the state of the art in research on administrative ethics. It features all new contributions by many of the leading figures in the field, and addresses both the managerial and individual/moral dimensions of ethical behavior as well as new challenges to administrative ethics posed by globalization. A detailed introduction, opening passage, and conclusion lend context to each of the book's four main sections. "Ethics in Public Management" is must reading for any graduate level course in public sector ethics. |
Contents
State of the Art of Empirical Research on Ethics and Integrity | 16 |
Developing a Behavioral Model for Ethical Decision Making | 49 |
Update on Moral Reasoning Research and Theory in Public | 70 |
The Communal Language of Effective | 95 |
Prospects | 114 |
Moral Agency in Public | 139 |
An Axiomatic Theory | 165 |
The Dilemma | 184 |
Public Ethics Legal Accountability and the New Governance | 220 |
The Foibles and Future | 243 |
Why Ethics Policies Spawn Unintended | 259 |
An Anatomy of Official Corruption | 277 |
PublicService Ethics in a Transnational World | 297 |
Some Directions | 328 |
Ethics and Public ManagementAnswers | 356 |
About the Editors and Contributors | 373 |
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