Ethics for bureaucrats

Description:

This important text integrates the study of ethics into public management training, highlighting Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values-equality, freedom, and property-focusing on the pedagogical aspects of law and posing challenging questions to help readers apply theories to concrete situations. It includes a case index for further research. Topics of specific interest include abortion, affirmative action, bureaucratic bashing, civil disobedience, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, the Iran-Contra scandal, moral absolutism, privileged communications, religious fundamentalism, and whistle blowing. The Midwest Review of Pubic Administration lauds it as "…a unique teaching tool."

subjects: Civil service,  Civil service ethics,  Government executives,  Ethik,  O˜ffentlicher Dienst,  Political ethics,  Fonctionnaires,  Déontologie,  Fonction publique,  Hauts fonctionnaires

Places: United States