Public administration ethics for the 21st century / J. Michael Martinez.
2009
JF1525.E8 M375 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Public administration ethics for the 21st century / J. Michael Martinez.
ISBN
9780313358807 (alk. paper)
031335880X (alk. paper)
9780313358821 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0313358826 (pbk. : alk. paper)
031335880X (alk. paper)
9780313358821 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0313358826 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 194 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
JF1525.E8 M375 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
172/.2
Summary
"Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century lays the ethical foundations for a uniform professional code of ethics for public administrators, civil servants, and non-profit administrators in the US. Martinez synthesizes five disparate schools of ethical thought as to how public administrators can come to know the good and behave in ways that advance the values of citizenship, equity, and public interest within their respective organizations. Using case studies, he teaches American administrators how to combine the approaches of all five schools to evaluate and resolve complex ethical dilemmas within the constraints of the U.S. democratic values set. Martinez enunciates the common ethical principles that guide public administrators in their practice within the specific ethical parameters and organizational cultures of a myriad entities at the federal, state, and local levels of government in the United States, as well as in non-profit organizations. Along the way, Martinez addresses a number of crucial issues, including personal gain, conflict of interest, transparency, democratic impartiality, hiring, hierarchical discipline, media relations, partisan pressure, appointments by elected officials, and whistle-blowing. The striking, high-profile case studies - Nathan Bedford Forrest, Adolph Eichmann, Lieutenant William Calley, and Mary Ann Wright - illustrate ethical dilemmas where, for better or worse, the individual was at odds with the organization."--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: the quest for administrative ethics
Five major approaches to administrative ethics
Contemporary literature affecting administrative ethics
The role of the public administrator in an organization
The role of the public administrator as a moral agent
Toward a process theory of administrative ethics.
Five major approaches to administrative ethics
Contemporary literature affecting administrative ethics
The role of the public administrator in an organization
The role of the public administrator as a moral agent
Toward a process theory of administrative ethics.