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Common ground, common future : moral agency in public administration, professions, and citizenship /
The inherently moral nature of public administration, argue the authors (of Texas State U.), makes the public administrator as a moral agent a moral exemplar for other professions. They examine a unified ethic that is implied by this view of public administration and consider its application to othe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boca Raton, FL :
Taylor & Francis,
2006.
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| Colección: | Public administration and public policy ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Moral Agent, Moral Organization, and the Public; Administrator; What Is a Moral Agent?; The Special Ethical Aspects of Public Organizations; Citizenship and Public Administration; The Ethical Environment of Public Administration; The Need for Ethical Reasoning in Public Administration; Moral Agency, the Public Administrator,
- And the Private Citizen; ; Moral Agency in the Public Sector; The Ideal Public Administrator; The Legislator's Moral Agency; Conflicts of Obligations; Bending and Breaking the Rules; Moral Whistle-Blowing; The Ideal and the Real; ; Ethical Breakdowns in Public Administration; Insufficient Commitment; Excessive Commitment to Goals; Moral Dilemmas; The Public Administrator as Strong Evaluator; ; Ethics in Business; CSR; Opponents of CSR; Proponents of CSR; Discussion; Perspectives on Government; Conclusion; ; Managed Care; Origins and Structure of Managed Care; Moral Challenges of Managed Care; Alternative Perspectives on Managed Care; ; The Legal Profession; The Client's Interest and the Interests of Justice; Moral Obligations Common to the Legal Profession; The Legal Profession and Public Service; Civil Law; Attorneys Committed to Causes; Conclusion; ; Higher Education; Ethics in the Academy:
- Level 1; Ethics in the Academy: Level 2; University-Government Partnerships; University-Business Partnerships; Intercollegiate Athletics; Conclusion; ; Unifying Ethical Theory; Traditional Ethical Theories; The Unity of the Absolutist Theories; The Kantian Legislator in the Kingdom of Ends and the Moral Agent; The Unified Ethic, Communitarianism, and Individualism; Rawls and the Unified Ethic; ; Applying the Unified Ethic to Moral Agency; The Moral Agent as Morally Responsible Citizen; Insufficient Commitment to Moral Values; Transformation and Reconfiguration; Moral Agency in Business; Use of Foreign,
- Low-Wage Labor; Should Tobacco Companies Exist?; The Moral Exemplarship of the Private Executive; Moral Agency and the Attorney; Encouraging the Process of Moral Agency in the Health Professions; Higher Education in the Context of the Kingdom of Ends; ; The Public Agent as Exemplar for the Private Professional; A Dialogue; Points of Agreement; Geuras: The Public Administrator as Citizen Exemplar Model; Does Not Fully Apply to the Private Sector; Garofalo's Response; Summary; ; Common Ground, Common Future; Introduction; Requirements for Reform; Conclusion