Value and Virtue in Public Administration [electronic resource] : A Comparative Perspective /
Vries, Michiel S. De.editor.
Kim, Pan Suk.editor.
A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways of enabling the public sector to balance the values that are presently dominant with classic values such as accountability, representation, equality, neutrality, transparency and the public interest.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction to Value and Virtue in Public Administration; 2 Governance and Values in Contemporary Public Service; 3 Public Virtue Approaches; 4 Ethics and Globalization in Historical Perspective: The Relevance of Socrates in Our Days; 5 The Cultural-Economic Perspective on Values and Virtues; 6 The Social Psychology Perspective on Values and Virtues; 7 The Institutional Perspective on Values and Virtues; 8 Public Administration as a Menetype B: Re-discovering Trichotomies
9 Contemporary Trends and Dilemmas of Administrative Ethics in the Developing World10 The Value Profile of Civil Servants in New European Democracies through the Lens of Embedded Ethics; 11 The Evil and Its Cure: Clientelism, Corruption, and Their Institutional Remedies in Latin America; 12 Perils and Prospects in Four African Countries; 13 Public Sector Value and Virtue and the OECD; 14 Values and Virtues in the Japanese Public Sector; 15 Conclusions; References; Notes on the Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways of enabling the public sector to balance the values that are presently dominant with classic values such as accountability, representation, equality, neutrality, transparency and the public interest.
Public policy.
Ethics.
Political sociology.
Political science.
Public administration.
Public Policy.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Political Sociology.
Political Science.
Public Administration.