Value and Virtue in Public Administration A Comparative Perspective

De Vries, Michiel S. & Pan Suk Kim

ISBN 10: 113738798X / ISBN 13: 9781137387981

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Value and Virtue in Public Administration A Comparative Perspective
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113738798X
• ISBN 13: 9781137387981
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good+

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Synopsis

The aim of this book is to clarify the ground on which public service scholars, practitioners and advisers stand in relation to values and virtues in public administration. It explores assumptions, the unspoken and unexamined things that are taken for granted in the field of serving the public good. Accordingly, Values and Virtues in Public Administration gives an account of the recent developments and progress in public sector management and public service. It describes the progress made in the discipline of public administration, in theories related to public administration and in the practice of public administration in tackling the questions surrounding values and virtues. These trends, descriptions, theories and comparisons make it possible to answer the question of how administrative ethics vary and what this variance depends upon. Featuring contributions from scholars in several different disciplines and in-depth case studies, the book concludes that under New Public Management instrumental values and consequential ethics have become dominant and more fundamental values have been neglected.

About the Author

CHRISTINA W. ANDREWS Senior Lecturer at the Federal University of São Paulo - Unifesp, Brazil DEMETRIOS ARGYRIADES Graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and the Sorbonne, France BRUCE CUTTING Policy Advisor to the Australian Government CHARLES GAROFALO Professor of Political Science at Texas State University, USA M. SHAMSUL HAQUE Professor at the Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore EELKE DE JONG Chair in International Economics at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands ALEXANDER KOUZMIN Professor of Management in the School of Commerce and Management at Southern Cross University, Australia, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Management at the University of South Australia HIROKO KUDO Professor in Public Policy and Management at the Faculty of Law and the Graduate School of Public Policy, Chuo University, Japan CYNTHIA E. LYNCH Associate Professor in the MPA Program in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Pan American, USA THOMAS D. LYNCH Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University, USA and Executive Director of the International Academy of Interfaith Studies ELINOR OSTROM Distinguished Professor, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, and Senior Research Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, USA and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University, USA VINCENT OSTROM Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Founding Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, USA JOLANTA PALIDAUSKAITE Professor in the Public Administration Department at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania ABAKHOLWA MOSES SINDANE Professor and Head of the Department of Public Management of the University of the Free State, South Africa IWONA SOBIS Associated Professor in Public Administration at Gothenburg University, Sweden BERRY THOLEN Assistant Professor in Public Administration at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands