John Rohr

Ethics for Bureaucrats

An Essay on Law and Values, Second Edition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This important text integrates the study of ethics into public management training, highlighting Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values-equality, freedom, and property-focusing on the pedagogical aspects of law and posing challenging questions to help readers apply theories to concrete situations. It includes a case index for further research. Topics of specific interest include abortion, affirmative action, bureaucratic bashing, civil disobedience, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, the Iran-Contra scandal, moral absolutism, privileged communications, religious fundamentalism, and whistle blowing. The Midwest Review of Pubic Administration lauds it as "...a unique teaching tool."

Produktdetails

• Public Administration and Public Policy
• Verlag: CRC Press / Taylor & Francis
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 22mm x 152mm x 229mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780824780326
• ISBN-10: 0824780329
• Artikelnr.: 22086184

Autorenporträt

JOHN A. ROHR Center for Public Administration and Policy Virginia Polytechnic institute Blacksburg, Virginia

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 STATING THE PROBLEM Chapter 2 REGIME VALUES Chapter 3 EQUALITY Chapter 4 FREEDOM, CONCLUSION

Rezensionen

"About the previous edition. . . . . .well-written. . .an admirable and provocative attempt to avoid what the author terms 'moralistic bombers and pious platitudes.' "
---State Government Journal
". . .a unique teaching tool. "
---Midwest Review of Pubic Administration