Practical Ethics in Public Administration, Third Edition. This item is unavailable.Practical Ethics in Public Administration, Third Edition

Make the Right Choice - Enhance Your Ethical Decision-Making Skills Today! Ethical issues arise in all walks of life, but none have implications as far-reaching and serious as those related to public management. Most people working in the public sector want to do the "right" thing, but the issues can be highly complex or not lend themselves to easy answers. This book provides the tools, techniques, and methods needed to help meet these challenges. This completely updated third edition offers public sector professionals the information they need to face the ethical issues that arise in the course of a day’s work, address those issues with greater self-assurance, perform their duties in an ethically justifiable manner, and explain their actions reasonably. This new edition: • Covers emerging ethical issues surrounding public-private partnerships • Examines the shift from compliance-based to integrity-based ethics programs • Explores the context of moral competency

Dean Geuras is Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. In addition to articles in philosophy, Dr. Geuras has authored interdisciplinary publications relating philosophy to other fields, including theology and counseling.
Charles Garofalo, Professor of Political Science at Texas State University, teaches graduate and aundergraduate courses in public administration, public policy, administrative ethics, and business- government relations.
Together, Geuras and Garofalo have also co-authored Ethics in the Public Service: The Moral Mind at Work and Common Ground, Common Future: Moral Agency in Public Administration, Professions, and Citizenship.