Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century
• Fillls a glaring gap in the literature on public administration by laying the groundwork for a profession-wide code of ethical conduct• Written in an authoritative but jargon-free way, to serve both academic and professional readers• Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of different schools of thought on administrative ethics• Looks at ethical questions in public administration in the overall context of modern ethical theory• Four cases of ethical and unethical decision making in context—Nathan Bedford Forrest, William Calley, Adolf Eichmann, and Mary Anne Wright—who resigned in protest over the 2003 invasion of Iraq• Six figures depicting the process of ethical decision making within a public organization• An extensive bibliography listing of the major sources on administrative ethics in print and online• An index of key thinkers and theories involving administrative ethics