Value and Virtue in Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective

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

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 339
Series: IIAS Series: Governance and Public Management
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction to Value and Virtue in Public Administration....Pages 1-16
Governance and Values in Contemporary Public Service....Pages 17-32
Public Virtue Approaches....Pages 33-46
Ethics and Globalization in Historical Perspective: The Relevance of Socrates in Our Days....Pages 47-83
The Cultural-Economic Perspective on Values and Virtues....Pages 84-97
The Social Psychology Perspective on Values and Virtues....Pages 98-114
The Institutional Perspective on Values and Virtues....Pages 115-134
Public Administration as a Menetype B: Re-discovering Trichotomies....Pages 135-168
Contemporary Trends and Dilemmas of Administrative Ethics in the Developing World....Pages 169-185
The Value Profile of Civil Servants in New European Democracies through the Lens of Embedded Ethics....Pages 186-207
The Evil and Its Cure: Clientelism, Corruption, and Their Institutional Remedies in Latin America....Pages 208-227
Perils and Prospects in Four African Countries....Pages 228-240
Public Sector Value and Virtue and the OECD....Pages 241-255
Values and Virtues in the Japanese Public Sector....Pages 256-274
Conclusions....Pages 275-284
Back Matter....Pages 285-327

✦ Subjects

Public Policy; Ethics; Moral Philosophy; Political Sociology; Political Science; Public Administration

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