Description
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."
Table of Contents
Foreword- Herbert J. Storing
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
Explaining Terms
Outlining the Argument
False Starts
Notes
Stating the Problem
The Reform Debate
Politics and Administration
The Demise of the Dichotomy
Conclusion
Notes
Regime Values
Some Approaches to Ethics
Regime Values
Conclusion
Notes
Equality
Race
Sex
Notes
Freedom
Speech and Press Religion
National Security
Freedom v. Equality
Notes
Property
Old Property
New Property
Notes
Conclusion
On Bureaucrat Bashing
Community and Individual
The Problem of Ambiguity
Notes
Appendix: Constitution of the United States of America
Case Index
Index
