Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century - Softcover

Martinez, J. Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0313358826 ISBN 13: 9780313358821

Publisher: Praeger, 2009

Synopsis

This volume establishes a foundation for a uniform code of professional ethics for public administrators in the United States.

· Four cases of ethical and unethical decision making in context―Nathan Bedford Forrest, William Calley, Adolf Eichmann, and Mary Anne Wright―who resigned in protest over the 2003 invasion of Iraq

· Six figures depicting the process of ethical decision making within a public organization

· An extensive bibliography listing of the major sources on administrative ethics in print and online

· An index of key thinkers and theories involving administrative ethics

About this title

Book Description:

The engineering, medical, and legal professions in the United States each have explicit codes of ethics in which all practitioners must be educated and by which they must abide. Yet of all fields, public administration remains without such a uniform code—despite the manifestly ethical nature of the way civil servants and non-profit administrators are asked to work and make decisions.

About the Author:

J. Michael Martinez is a corporate attorney in Monroe, GA, and teaches political science as a part-time faculty member at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, GA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0313358826
• ISBN 13: 9780313358821
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216