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Ethics in Public Administration: A Philosophical Approach
Patrick
J. Sheeran ISBN: 0-275-94311-9
180 pages, figures, Praeger Publishers
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Ethics in Public Administration provides public administrators with a theoretical knowledge of ethical principles and a practical framework for applying them. Sheeran reviews the place of ethics in philosophy, links it to political and administrative theory and practice, and analyzes the ethical theories and concepts from which ethical principles are derived.
Before delving into ethics as part of philosophy, Sheeran provides the reader with a brief overview of philosophy and its principal subjects, including ontology, epistemology, and psychology. He offers several definitions of ethics, and discusses both the objectivist (absolutist) and interpretivist ("situation ethics") perspectives. Sheeran focuses on the subject matter of ethics, human actions, and their morality, exploring Natural Law, man-made law, and conscience as sources for determining the morality of human action. In later chapters, he applies his discussion of ethics to such controversial policy issues as suicide, murder, abortion, sterilization, capital punishment, war, lying, and strikes. Recommended for graduate and upper division undergraduate courses in public administration, public policy, management, and administrative behavior.
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http://www.praeger.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=C4311 |
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The Human Side of Public Administration
Louis C. Gawthrop, University of Baltimore
To avoid any misunderstanding, let me say at the outset that the remarks that follow are selective impressions brimming with bias, the product of what one of our earlier distinguished colleagues, George Graham, described as old-fashioned armchair research. To talk about the human side of public administration is a good opening salvo designed to attract attention, but what I really want to focus my comments on is a thread that is woven deeply within the fibers of administration, and that now, more than ever before, needs to be brought to the surface and recognized explicitly as an integral aspect of our democratic heritage. Specifically, I am referring to the humanistic imperatives that democracy historically weaves into the fabric of public administration.
http://209.235.241.4/PS/dec98/gawthrop.cfm |
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Conceptualizing Public Administration: Public Administration as a Disciplinary Matrix
Abel, Charles F. & Sementelli, Arthur J.
This paper argues that the debate over the proper definition of Public Administration is at root a debate over the proper conceptualization of the field relative to both the private sector and from other fields and disciplines in the academic sector. To this end, we discuss Public Administration as a disciplinary matrix describing its role in the state, in the society, and in the university; and what differentiates its institutions from other kinds of organizations. More pointedly, we can then argue that Public Administration, in a sense has a unified, coherent and sufficiently independent practice, discipline, and object of study when examined through a Kuhnian lens.
http://www.pat-net.org/Able.html |
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A Distinct Public Administration Ethics?
Goss, Robert P.
Discusses the results of empirical research into public administration
ethic by testing the importance of twelve public administration values
among bureaucrats, elected officials, and voters. Role-based nature
of professional ethics; Bureaucratic ethos and democratic ethos associated
with public administration values; Ranking of professional values;
Gender value differences.
Source: Journal of Public
Administration Research & Theory, Oct96, Vol. 6 Issue 4, p573, 25p,
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The Future of Public Administration: Challenges to Democracy, Citizenship, and Ethics
Robert B. Denhardt, University of Delaware
This paper examines several trends likely to affect the field of public administration over the coming two decades. Implications of these trends for the internal management of public organizations and for the relationship between public officials and citizens are considered. It becomes apparent that new skills and abilities will be required for public servants of the future.
http://www.pamij.com/99_4_2_Denhardt.html |
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