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Honest Government: An Ethics Guide for Public Service
Authors: W.J. Michael Cody , Richardson R. Lynn
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This text addresses the need for a comprehensive statement of ethical behavior for public officials and employees at every level of government. While recognizing the need for legal reforms that focus mainly on campaign contributions, the authors examine the broader questions of how we should measure the routine, day-to-day ethics of men and women in public service. (Praeger Paperback, 9/30/1992) ISBN: 0-275-94376-3. 192 pages. |
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Government, Ethics, and Managers: A Guide to Solving Ethical Dilemmas in the Public Sector
Authors: Sheldon
S. Steinberg , David
T. Austern.
Sheldon S. Steinberg and David T. Austern focus on the ethical and unethical behavior of elected and appointed government officials. The authors discuss the various types of ethical dilemmas that confront public sector managers, offer ways to analyze them, and describe management strategies designed to prevent unethical behavior. A series of ethical dilemmas which force the reader to examine his or her own ethical standards is followed by answers to the dilemmas which emphasize the importance of ethical choices. The authors also suggest ways to identify the susceptibility to corruption of a jurisdiction and present model policies, procedures, and legislation which could be effective in reducing the opportunity for unethical behavior. (Quorum Books, 9/21/1990) ISBN: 0-89930-442-7. 184 pages.
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Rethinking Administrative Theory: The Challenge of the New Century
Author: Jong
S. Jun ed.
Offers innovative solutions by top international scholars to the challenges faced in public administration. Striving to redirect the study of public administration toward innovation and imagination, deliberative democracy, knowledge transfer, policy making, and ethics and values--topics which for too long have been overshadowed by traditional problems of efficency, productivity, and instrumental-rational solutions--this book of diverse essays is certain to invigorate both scholarship and practice. Eighteen leading international scholars evaluate public administration's historical development and explore the significance and value trends in public administration from a variety of cutting-edge theoretical and practical perspectives. (Praeger Publishers, 10/30/2001) ISBN: 0-275-97248-8. 352 pages.
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Curbing Unethical Behavior in Government
Author: Joseph
Zimmerman.
Special efforts have to be initiated on a continuing basis to eliminate unethical behavior by public officers and employees. (Greenwood Press, 8/30/1994) ISBN: 0-313-28608-6. 272 pages.
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The Ethics Challenge in Public Service: A Problem-Solving Guide
Carol W. Lewis. ISBN: 1-55542-383-3, 384 Pages. October 1991, Jossey-Bass
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A Publication of the American Society for Public Administration
Ethics in public service is a hot topic in today's headlines. This detailed guide provides public managers with the practical tools and techniques they need to make ethical choices in the ambiguous pressured world of public service. Shows how applying ethical principles can be a powerful means of clarifying and resolving complex problems in an even more complex world.
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The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role, 4th Edition
Terry L. Cooper
ISBN: 0-7879-4133-6, 304 Pages. August 1998, Jossey-Bass
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"This is an important work, especially in these times when administrative ethics are getting more attention. It is readable and timely."
--The Journal of Academic Librarianship
Since its original publication, The Responsible Administrator has become the standard resource for public administrators seeking to systematically confront and address ethical issues and incorporate them into their decision-making and management choices. In administrative ethics courses, according to the Working Group on Ethics Education of the American Society for Public Administration, the single most commonly used book is Terry Cooper's The Responsible Administrator.
In this thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition, Cooper expands on and uncovers many current issues relevant to administrative ethics. He presents a design approach to administrative ethics, emphasizing the connection between decision making and actual practice within an organization. Cooper offers new insight on postmodernism, explaining how the problems organizations now face have been intensified by postmodern conditions, and describes the relationship between ethics and the emerging principal-agent theory. The new edition also features a large number of up-to-date case studies and examples. The theoretical framework presented in this powerful resource is clearly grounded in practice. Featured techniques help managers consider all the factors involved in a decision, ensuring that they balance professional, personal, and organizational values. The case studies and examples in this edition illustrate the techniques that work and those that don't.
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The Spirit of Public Administration
H. George Frederickson
ISBN: 0-7879-0295-0, 288 Pages. September 1996, Jossey-Bass
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In this field-defining, broad approach to the study and practice of public administration, H. George Frederickson, one of the field's most respected scholars, carefully measures the meets and bounds of public administration and fixes its place in the context of changing politics, values, and ethics. He describes a robust and exciting public administration that includes, but is much more than, effective government management. The Spirit of Public Administration defines an ethic for the field. Frederickson strongly defends broad grants of discretion to public administrators and then lays out the proper norms and ethic which should inform that discretion. And he firmly argues that the effectiveness of democratic government and modern governance, not just for the majority of but for all citizens, depends on the energetic exercise of bureaucratic discretion. The book concludes with seven principles that should guide everyone who works in public settings. Students and scholars will find The Spirit of Public Administration an exhilarating and challenging perspective. |
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Ethical Frontiers in Public Management: Seeking New Strategies for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas
James S. Bowman. ISBN: 1-55542-345-0, 368 Pages. May 1991, Jossey-Bass.
A publication of the American Society for Public Administration
Today's public managers face complex ethical dilemmas, often having to weigh personal and professional values against current public opinion and legal mandates. In a climate of increasing concern over ethical conduct in governmental institutions, administrators confront new challenges in the practice of public service.
Through in-depth interviews with public executives, focus group data, philosophical inquiry, and case studies, leading experts in the field of public administration develop an overview of the prevailing ethical environment in the public sector, provide fresh approaches to thinking about government ethics, and offer new strategies for improving ethical decision making.
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Images of Public Administration
by Dr. Don C. Menzel, PA Times, Vol. 24, No. 5, May 2001
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, tell me who is the fairest of all?"--so goes the fairy tale. Imagine for a moment that we held the study and practice of public administration before the mirror on the wall, do you suppose the mirror would tell us that public administration is the fairest of all? Perhaps not. Why not? This essay addresses the "why not" question--"why isn't the image of public administration what we would like it to be?" And, most importantly, "what can we do to change the image into one that we will like?"
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Integrity and NPM
by Emile W. Kolthoff and Leo Huberts
Public Administration has adopted a business-like approach to government.
Output budgeting, privatization, competition and commercialization are receiving more attention than the exclusive character of certain public tasks. This business-like approach to government can be compared to that of a hybrid organization with, according to some authors, an increased risk of integrity violations.
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How Responsible Is 'Responsive' Government?
Economy
and Society, 1
August 2002, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 461-482(22) Rohr J. A.
The work of John Rohr focuses primarily upon the constitutional dimension of the work of public servants, most particularly, but not exclusively, career civil servants employed in central government. In stressing public service ethics as a form of constitutional practice Rohr's aim is to help reinforce the legitimate role of career public servants in government and to remind practising public bureaucrats (and academics and politicians) of the nobility of the 'administrative vocation' of state service, a somewhat daunting task in today's political climate. In this article I examine Rohr's work to see what ethical light it might throw upon recent and ongoing political attempts to make the British public administration more 'responsive'. I do so, first, by outlining the main themes of Rohr's work and their location within the US constitutional tradition. I then proceed to discuss the extent to which they translate into other constitutional contexts. Finally, I attempt to put Rohr's work to use in discussing aspects of civil service reform in Britain under recent Conservative administrations and that of the present New Labour government.
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TRENDS in 20th Century United States Government Ethics
by Steven Cohen and William B. Eimicke, School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University - Draft: February 19, 1998
As the twentieth century comes to a close, ethics is returning to the public sector reform agenda. Just as it was at the turn of this century the current focus is on the administrative branch of government. Then, as now, scandals involving elected officials prompted the reform initiatives. However, today there is far less consensus on the most appropriate elements of the reform agenda, perhaps reflecting a century of less than successful ethically-driven reforms.
This paper provides a broad overview of what we see as five distinct eras of ethics reform in this century and a current debate which may well emerge as the initial reform agenda of the new millennium.
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New Public Management And Substantive Democracy
Public Administration Review; Washington; Sep/Oct 2001; Richard
C Box; Gary S Marshall; B J Reed; Christine M Reed;
There is a concern that a remaining refuge of substantive democracy in America, the public sector, is in danger of abandoning it in favor of the market model of management. It is argued that contemporary American democracy is confined to a shrunken procedural remnant of its earlier substantive form. The classical republican model of citizen involvement faded with the rise of liberal capitalist society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Capitalism and democracy coexist in a society emphasizing procedural protection of individual liberties rather than substantive questions of individual development. Today's market model of government in the form of New Public Management goes beyond earlier "reforms," threatening to eliminate democracy as a guiding principle in public-sector management.
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Reinventing The Proverbs Of Government
Public Administration Review; Washington; Nov/Dec 2000; Daniel W Williams.
The field of public administration has a long history of popular reform movements. Many of these reforms have failed to deliver the improvements promised. The current "reinventing government" reforms, which follow largely from the writings of David Osborne and his coauthors, claim to establish a new governmental paradigm based on liberating employees and citizens to do their best and using new management methods to get the most out of what government does. However, a careful analysis of Osbornes's chief works, Reinventing Government and Banishing Bureaucracy, reveals that his advice cannot be applied because it is inconsistent. No new paradigm is established, and, more important, because of the ahistorical nature of these texts, Osborne proposes discredited ideas for administrative reform and misleads the reader concerning the significance of his observations.
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The Repositioning of American Public Administration
PS: Political Science & Politics. Dec, 1999. Author/s: H. George Frederickson
Younger public administration scholars may not regard this lecture and the public administration panels at this conference as remarkable. I do, and I suspect others of my generation would agree. Twenty years ago, public administration had all but disappeared as a field of political science and in the affairs of the American Political Science Association. Now, the Annual Meeting of APSA is a primary venue for the presentation of serious research on public administration by whatever nomenclature-- public management, bureaucracy, policy implementation, governance. Recent presidents of APSA have been associated with the field of public administration and the PA section is large and vibrant. In the reemergence of public administration in APSA, it is essential to point out, however, that there are still too few pages dealing with the field in the American Political Science Review and the APSR needs a book review section dedicated to public administration.
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Public Administration in Today's World of Organizations and Markets
PS: Political Science & Politics, Dec, 2000, Author/s: Herbert Simon
It is a special pleasure for me to give a lecture named in honor of John M. Gaus. My files still retain several gracious letters from him to a young colleague, one after a session in which we had participated at the 1950 APSA meeting; another commenting on a paper I had published in APSR in 1953.
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