1st Edition

Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration: Concepts and Cases Concepts and Cases

By Raymond W Cox Copyright 2009
    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    "Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration" presents cutting-edge perspectives on the role of ethics in public sector management - what it is and where it is going. The contributors include a cross-section of authoritative authors from around the globe, and from both the academy and government. They cover a wide range of topics, diverse theoretical and conceptual paradigms, and global examples, and provide a broader view than what is typically offered in other books. The book includes both theoretical insights and commentaries grounded in practice. Chapters are divided into three parts: Ethical Foundations and Perspectives, Ethical Management and Ethical Leadership, and International and Comparative Perspectives.

    Introduction; Raymond W. Cox III, Terrel Rhodes, Leo Hubert, and Emile Kolthoff; PART 1. ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES; 1. Democratic Morality: Back to the Future, Thomas Dexter Lynch and Cynthia E. Lynch; 2. The I that Is We: Recognition and Administrative Ethics, Michael Macaulay; 3. Ethical Failings, Incompetence, and Administrative Evil: Lessons from Katrina and Iraq, Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour; PART 2. ETHICAL MANAGEMENT AND ETHICAL LEADERSHIP; 4. Administrative Leadership and Transparency, Charles Garofalo and Dean Geuras; 5. Implications of Organizational Influence on Ethical Behavior: An Analysis of the Perceptions of Public Managers, Rodney Erakovich and Sherman Wyman; 6. Public Management in a Culture of Waiver, Harold Moeller; 7. Ethics Management and Ethical Management, Alan Lawton and Michael Macaulay; PART 3. INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES; 8. Global Ethics or Politics of Numbers? Ranking and Standardizing Performance in Administrative Ethics, Tero Erkkila and Ossi Piironen; 9. Fighting Corruption Globally and Locallym, Kalin Ivanov; 10. Global vs. Local Perspectives of Anticorruption Reforms in Italy, Maria Laura Seguiti; 11. Ethical Management and Leadership: Is an Ethical Perspective a Necessary Component of Good Management and Organizational Leadership? Alessandra Storlazzi; 12. Measuring Integrity: A Dutch-American Comparative Project Emile, Kolthoff, Raymond W. Cox III, and Terrance Johnson; 13. A Two-Pronged Methodological Approach for Measuring Public and Private Sector Organizational Core Values: The Importance of Content and Context, Zeger van der Wal; 14. Developing the "Ethical Competence" of Public Officials: A Capacity-Building Approach, Howard Whitton About the Editors and Contributors; Index.

    Biography

    Raymond W. Cox III is a professor in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies at the University of Akron. He received his PhD in Public Administration and Policy from Virginia Tech. Dr. Cox is the author of more than fifty academic and professional publications, including two books (an introductory text, which is being revised for a second edition, and a book on grievance procedures and labor relations) and a dozen reports for government agencies, as well as more than sixty professional papers. His articles have appeared in the leading journals in the field of public management and public sector ethics, including Public Administration Review, Public Administration Quarterly, Public Integrity, the International Journal of Public Administration, and the American Review of Public Administration. His most recent works have been on discretionary judgment and organizational performance. He has served on the editorial boards of three professional journals. He currently serves as chair of the American Society for Public Administration’s Section on Ethics (2007–2009). He is also the chair of the Local Government Management Education committee of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.Dr. Cox brings to the academy nearly two decades of government experience, primarily in state government, and including a term as chief of staff to the lieutenant governor in New Mexico. He also served as a grant administrator for the National Science Foundation. Because of this combination of professional and academic experience, he was approved for the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program. His first assignment was to develop a performance measurement-training program for midlevel managers in the government of Latvia. Later he created a career development-training program for that government. He recently returned from a semester at McGill University in Montreal where he was the research chair in public policy through the Fulbright program.