Title: Value and virtue in public administration : a comparative perspective /
Authors: Vries, Michiel S. de, 1957-; Kim, P'an-sŏk
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Public administration Moral and ethical aspects; Civil service ethics; Public administration Moral and ethical aspects Case studies.; Civil service ethics Case studies.; Ethics; Political planning.; Political science; Political sociology.; Public administration; Ethics; Political planning; Political science; Political sociology; Public administration
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Introduction to value and virtue in public administration -- Governance and values in contemporary public service / Charles Garofalo -- Public virtue approaches / Berry Tholen -- Ethics and globalization in historical perspective: the relevance of socrates in our days / Demetrios Argyriades -- The cultural-economic perspective on values and virtues / Eelke de Jong -- The social psychology perspective on values and virtues / Iwona Sobis & Michiel S. de Vries -- The institutional perspective on values and virtues / Elinor Ostrom & Vincent Ostrom -- Public administration as a menetype b: re-discovering trichotomies / Bruce Cutting & Alexander Kouzmin -- Contemporary trends and dilemmas of administrative ethics in the developing world -- / M. Shamul Haque -- The value profile of civil servants in new European democracies through the lens of embedded ethics / Jolanta Palidauskaite -- The evil and its cure: clientelism, corruption and their institutional remedies in Latin America / Christina W. Andrews -- Perils and prospects in four African countries / Moses Sindane -- Public sector value and virtue and the OECD / Cynthia E. Lynch & Thomas D. Lynch.