Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Part One Ethics and Public Administration in the Twenty-First Century -- 1 Introduction -- Focus and Coherence -- Empirical Research and Theory Building -- References -- 2 State of the Art of Empirical Research on Ethics and Integrity in Governance -- Introduction -- Study Methodology -- Ethical Decision Making and Moral Development -- Ethics Laws and Regulatory Agencies -- Organizational Performance and Ethics -- Ethics Management Experiences and Strategies -- Community, Culture, and the Ethical Environment -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part 2 Organization Designs That Support Ethical Behavior -- 3 Developing a Behavioral Model for Ethical Decision Making in Organizations: Conceptual and Empirical Research -- Descriptive Frameworks and Models of Ethical Decision Making -- A Proposed General Ethical Decision-Making Model -- Ethical Judgment -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 4 Update on Moral Reasoning Research and Theory in Public Administration: A Neo-Kohlbergian Perspective -- Introduction -- Differences between Kohlberg and Neo-Kohlbergian Perspectives -- Cognitive Developmental Research and Public Administration -- Purpose and Hypotheses -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 Power and Ethics: The Communal Language of Effective Leadership -- Power and Effective Leadership -- The Power-Ethics Link -- Operationalizing Power -- Operationalizing Ethics -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- References -- 6 Public-Service Ethics and Administrative Evil: Prospects and Problems -- What Is Administrative Evil? -- Technical Rationality and Administrative Evil -- Evil and Administrative Evil in the Modern Age -- Professionalism, Technical Rationality, and Public-Service Ethics -- Ethics and Public-Service Ethic.

The Challenge of Administrative Evil -- Globalization, the Corrosion of Character, and Surplus Populations -- The Prospects for Reconstructing Public Ethics -- Cruelty, Deliberation, and Administrative Evil -- References -- 7 Accountability Through Thick and Thin: Moral Agency in Public Service -- Background: The War on Iraq and the Hutton Inquiry -- Expectations and Accountability -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Part 3 Market Forces That Compromise Administrative Ethics -- 8 Public Ethics and the New Managerialism: An Axiomatic Theory -- Some Defining Assumptions -- Increased Privatization and Contracting-Out -- Downsizing -- Are We Training a Cadre of Government Employees to Be Competent Contract Managers? -- Conclusions: The Ethical Consequences of the New Managerialism -- Notes -- References -- 9 Ensuring Accountability in Human Services: The Dilemma of Measuring Moral and Ethical Performance -- Central Arguments of This Commentary -- Reform Ideology of the New Public Management: Decentralize and Let Go -- Accountability -- A Challenge for the New Public Management Reforms: Achieving Accountability Despite the Limitations of Performance Measurement Technology -- Why New Public Management Reform Models Continue to Be Adopted Despite the Limitations of Performance Measurement Technology -- References -- 10 Cowboys and the New Public Management: Political Corruption as a Harbinger -- Introduction -- An Overview of Political Corruption -- The New Public Management -- Political Corruption and the New Public Management -- Notes -- References -- 11 Public Ethics, Legal Accountability, and the New Governance -- State Action in a Changing State -- The Indianapolis Experiment: A Cautionary Tale -- Conclusion -- References -- Cases Cited -- Part 4 Unintended Outcomes of Anticorruption Reforms.

12 The Cure for a Public Disease: The Foibles and Future of Corruption Control -- Introduction -- The Traditional/Bureaucratic Anticorruption Project -- Improved Corruption Control in Various (and Unexpected) Places 4 -- Corruption and Cultural Change: The Case of the Netherlands -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 13 In Search of Virtue: Why Ethics Policies Spawn Unintended Consequences -- Corruption -- Conflicts of Interest -- Transparency -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part 5 Administrative Ethics in Global Perspective -- 14 An Anatomy of Official Corruption -- The Essence of Corruption -- Tackling Corruption -- Distinguishing Individual from Systemic Corruption -- Institutionalized Corruption -- Remedies -- The Bottom Line -- References -- Additional Reading -- 15 Public-Service Ethics in a Transnational World -- Behind the Emerging Global Standards -- Organizational Efforts to Create Global Ethics Standards -- ADB-OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific -- Emerging Global Values -- Ethics and International Organizations -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- 16 Globalization and Public-Service Ethics: Some Directions for Inquiry -- Globalization and Public-Service Ethics -- Connecting Globalization and Ethics upon "Ground in Motion" -- The Imprint of the September 11, 2001, Tragedies on the Ecology -- Viable Avenues for Ethics Research -- Globalization, Public Law, and Regime Values -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 17 Conclusion: Ethics and Public Management- Answers and Questions -- Introduction -- Nature of Persons: The Contextual Dimension -- Making Ethical Decisions: An Extended View -- Administrative Ethics in the Twenty-First Century -- Research Implications -- Some Conclusions -- References -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.

The groundbreaking "Ethics in Public Administration" set the agenda for a decade's worth of research in the theory and practice of ethics in the public sector. This long-awaited follow-up volume represents the state of the art in research on administrative ethics. It features all new contributions by many of the leading figures in the field, and addresses both the managerial and individual/moral dimensions of ethical behavior as well as new challenges to administrative ethics posed by globalization. A detailed introduction, opening passage, and conclusion lend context to each of the book's four main sections. "Ethics in Public Management" is must reading for any graduate level course in public sector ethics.

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