Classics of administrative ethics / edited by Willa Bruce.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruce, Willa M.

Series:

ASPA classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration--Moral and ethical aspects.

Public administration.

Civil service ethics.

Civil service ethics--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxi, 450 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001.

Summary:

This anthology will be appropriate for administrative ethics classes and professional thinking in public administration at both the masters and doctoral levels. It is a collection of administrative ethics articles published in journals of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) from 1941 (the earliest publication) through 1983 (the year that the first ASPA Code of Ethics was established). The articles are organized by themes of enduring importance to the field in order to provide graduate students with ready access to the classic works on ethics in public administration. Reading this collection will enhance student's knowledge and skills to think and act ethically and contribute to their ability to view current practices in light of traditional perspectives. The ASPA Classics volume serves to bridge the practice of public policy and administration with the empirical research base that has accrued and the models for practice that may be deduced from the research

Contents:

Part 1 Administrative Responsibility 1

1 Administrative Responsibility in Democratic Government / Herman Finer (1941) 5

2 Ethics and Administrative Discretion (1943) / Wayne A. R. Leys 27

3 Trends of a Decade in Administrative Values (1951) / Wallace S. Sayre 48

4 Ethics and the Public Service (1964) / Stephen K. Bailey 63

5 The Possibility of Administrative Ethics (1985) / Dennis F. Thompson 79

Part 2 Solving Ethical Dilemmas 93

6 Ethical Guidelines for Public Administrators: Observations on Rules of the Game (1974) / George A. Graham 97

7 Ethical Dilemmas in Forecasting for Public Policy (1982) / Martin Wachs 102

8 Types and Levels of Public Morality (1984) / York Willbern 115

9 Managing Competing Claims: An Ethical Framework for Human Resource Decision Making (1984) / Debra W. Stewart 128

Part 3 Corruption 147

10 A Scandal in Utopia (1952) / Herbert Emmerich 149

11 Reflections on Watergate: Lessons for Public Administration (1974) / James L. Sundquist 163

12 Administrative Corruption (1977) / Gerald E. Caiden, Naomi J. Caiden 177

13 New Directions in the Study of Administrative Corruption (1983) / Simcha B. Werner 191

Part 4 Codes of Ethics 209

14 A Code of Ethics as a Means of Controlling Administrative Conduct (1953) / Phillip Monypenny 213

15 Ethics in the Public Service (1982) / Joseph F. Zimmerman 220

16 The Problem of Moral Reasoning in American Public Administration: The Case for a Code of Ethics (1983) / Ralph Clark Chandler 238

Part 5 Enforcing Ethical Behavior 253

17 Ethics in Government as a Problem in Executive Management (1955) / Robert C. Wood 255

18 Whistle-Blowing in the Public Service: An Overview of the Issues (1980) / James S. Bowman 267

19 The Inspector General Concept: Where It's Been, Where It's Going (1985) / Charles L. Dempsey 281

Part 6 Ethics Education 297

20 The Study of Ethics in the P.A. Curriculum (1976) / John A. Rohr 299

21 Two Approaches to Police Ethics (1982) / William C. Heffernan 313

22 Teaching Moral Education in Public Administration (1982) / Richard T. Mayer, Michael M. Harmon 329

Part 7 Professionalism 337

23 The Managerial Ethic and Productivity Improvement (1983) / David S. Brown 339

24 Citizenship and Professionalism in Public Administration (1984) / Terry L. Cooper 344

25 The Public Service and the Patriotism of Benevolence (1985) / H. George Frederickson, David K. Hart 358

26 Professionalism, Legitimacy, and the Constitution (1985) / John A. Rohr 372

Part 8 Ethics in the Twenty-First Century 389

27 Politics and "Inventing the Future": Perspectives in Science and Government (1967) / Todd R. La Porte 393

28 Administrative Crisis: The Neglect of Metaphysical Speculation (1973) / William G. Scott, David K. Hart 410

29 Civis, Civitas, and Civilitas: A New Focus for the Year 2000 (1984) / Louis C. Gawthrop 424.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813398118

OCLC:

45667870