Value and Virtue in Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective

✍ Scribed by Michiel S. De Vries, Pan Suk Kim

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 341
• Series: IIAS Series: Governance and Public Management
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

1 Michiel S. de Vries and Pan Suk Kim: Introduction to Value and Virtue in Public Administration
2 Charles Garofalo: Governance and Values in Contemporary Public Service
3 Berry Tholen: Public Virtue Approaches
4 Demetrios Argyriades: Ethics and Globalization in Historical Perspective: The Relevance of Socrates in Our Days
5 Eelke de Jong: The Cultural-Economic Perspective on Values and Virtues
6 Iwona Sobis and Michiel S. de Vries: The Social Psychology Perspective on Values and Virtues
7 Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom: The Institutional Perspective on Values and Virtues
8 Bruce Cutting and Alexander Kouzmin: Public Administration as a Menetype B: Re-discovering Trichotomies
9 M. Shamsul Haque: Contemporary Trends and Dilemmas of Administrative Ethics in the Developing World
10 Jolanta Palidauskaite: The Value Profile of Civil Servants in New European Democracies through the Lens of Embedded Ethics
11 Christina W. Andrews: The Evil and Its Cure: Clientelism, Corruption, and Their Institutional Remedies in Latin America
12 Moses Sindane: Perils and Prospects in Four African Countries
13 Cynthia E. Lynch and Thomas D. Lynch: Public Sector Value and Virtue and the OECD
14 Hiroko Kudo: Values and Virtues in the Japanese Public Sector
15 Michiel S. de Vries and Pan Suk Kim: Conclusions

✦ Subjects

Ethics Business Culture Money Administrative Law Antitrust Civil Emigration Immigration Federal Jurisdiction Housing Urban Development Indigenous Peoples Land Use Public Contract Utilities State Local Government Morality Philosophy Politics Social Sciences Sociology Abuse Class Death Marriage Family Medicine Race Relations Rural Theory Leadership Elections Political Process General Affairs Administration Policy Communication Finance New Used Rental Textbooks Specialty Boutique Humanities Constit