Motivating Ministers to Morality (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Holland, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138704962 ISBN 13: 9781138704961

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

This book discusses the most prominent subjects - and occasional victims - of the ethics debate: government ministers.

Political ethics is a rapidly growing field in disciplines such as political science, philosophy, applied ethics and public policy and it has become a major topic in current affairs’ reporting of politics. It is the first major work to discuss institutional reforms around the world that target ministerial morality and asks: how are these reforms influencing the motivation and conduct of the most powerful of our politicians?

The book provides unique insights into ministerial behaviour and the changing role of institutions in influencing the ethics of the executive, with analyses from around the world. Contributors to the volume include international high-profile players in political ethics. They include Lord Nolan, the first Chairman of Britain's Joint Parliamentary Committee on Standards in Public Life; Professor Robert J. Jackson, a leading Canadian political scientist instrumental in establishing the Canadian Office of the Ethics Counsellor; and Associate Professor Noel Preston, the leading commentator on ethics in Australian politics, who has been involved in developing a number of its ethical regimes.

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About the Author

Jenny Fleming is a Research Fellow in the Key Centre for Ethics Law Justice and Governance at Griffith University. She completed her doctorate at Griffith on public policy initiatives of new governments and is a former lecturer in the University's Faculty of Commerce and Management. Her research interests include party politics and the politics of criminal justice and police unionism, on which she has published widely. Ian Holland is a Research Fellow in the Key Centre for Ethics Law Justice and Governance at Griffith University. He was formerly lecturer in environmental policy and politics in the University's Faculty of Environmental Sciences. He has degrees from Sydney University, the University of New England and Griffith University. He has published on environmental policy and politics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138704962
• ISBN 13: 9781138704961
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Fleming Jenny