Combating Corruption, Encouraging Ethics: A Practical Guide to Management Ethics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742544516 ISBN 13: 9780742544512

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007

Synopsis

In their second edition of Combating Corruption, Encouraging Ethics, William L. Richter and Frances Burke update this essential staple to delve deeply into the unique ethical problems of twenty-first century public administration. Wide-ranging readings from Aristotle and Kant to John Kennedy and John T. Noonan provide initiation into the philosophical basis of ethics as virtue, consequence, principle, and responsibility, while new case studies drawn from todays headlines join old classics from the previous edition to help students apply ethical foundations to a modern administrative career. New chapters on privacy, secrecy, and confidentiality and the changing boundaries of public administration consider the consequences of computerization and globalization, two of this centurys greatest challenges.

By seamlessly melding theory with practice, Richter and Burke have created a key resource in educating future public administrators on the ethical problems associated with corruption, deception, evasion of accountability, and the abuse of authority. Open-ended examples and discussion questions encourage students to understand the complexity of administrative ethics and the need for careful thought in their day-to-day decisions. Combating Corruption, Encouraging Ethics offers both the depth demanded by graduate courses in administrative ethics and the accessibility necessary for an undergraduate introduction to public administration.

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About the Author

David Schultz is a distinguished professor of political science and legal studies at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and professor of law at the University of Minnesota.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742544516
• ISBN 13: 9780742544512
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Burke Frances