Garofalo / Geuras Common Ground, Common Future

Moral Agency in Public Administration, Professions, and Citizenship
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4200-2780-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Reihe: Public Administration and Public Policy

Common Ground, Common Future: Moral Agency in Public Administration, Professions, and Citizenship examines the public and private roles of the citizen as a moral agent. The authors define this agent as a person who recognizes morality as a motive for action, and not only follows moral principles but also acknowledges morality as his or her principal. The book explains that public administration is a fundamentally moral enterprise that exists to serve the values that society considers significant, and that this moral nature makes public administration a prototype for other professions to emulate, a model of moral governance in American society.

The title reflects the book's principal purpose and abiding hope: the development of a broad perspective on our individual and collective roles and responsibilities as citizens, professionals, and moral beings, with a recognition of mutual obligations to the large and small challenges inherent in the process of governance.

Zielgruppe

Students, professionals, and managers in public administration, public policy, ethics, and political science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garofalo, Charles

Geuras, Dean

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Moral Agent, Moral Organization, and the Public
Administrator
What Is a Moral Agent?

The Special Ethical Aspects of Public Organizations
Citizenship and Public Administration

The Ethical Environment of Public Administration
The Need for Ethical Reasoning in Public Administration

Moral Agency, the Public Administrator, and the Private Citizen

Moral Agency in the Public Sector
The Ideal Public Administrator

The Legislator's Moral Agency

Conflicts of Obligations

Bending and Breaking the Rules
Moral Whistle-Blowing
The Ideal and the Real

Ethical Breakdowns in Public Administration
Insufficient Commitment

Excessive Commitment to Goals
Moral Dilemmas

The Public Administrator as Strong Evaluator

Ethics in Business

CSR

Opponents of CSR

Proponents of CSR
Discussion

Perspectives on Government
Conclusion

Managed Care

Origins and Structure of Managed Care

Moral Challenges of Managed Care
Alternative Perspectives on Managed Care

The Legal Profession
The Client's Interest and the Interests of Justice

Moral Obligations Common to the Legal Profession

The Legal Profession and Public Service
Civil Law
Attorneys Committed to Causes

Conclusion

Higher Education
Ethics in the Academy: Level 1

Ethics in the Academy: Level 2

University-Government Partnerships

University-Business Partnerships

Intercollegiate Athletics

Conclusion

Unifying Ethical Theory
Traditional Ethical Theories
The Unity of the Absolutist Theories

The Kantian Legislator in the Kingdom of Ends and the Moral Agent
The Unified Ethic, Communitarianism, and Individualism

Rawls and the Unified Ethic

Applying the Unified Ethic to Moral Agency

The Moral Agent as Morally Responsible Citizen
Insufficient Commitment to Moral Values

Transformation and Reconfiguration

Moral Agency in Business
Use of Foreign, Low-Wage Labor
Should Tobacco Companies Exist?

The Moral Exemplarship of the Private Executive

Moral Agency and the Attorney

Encouraging the Process of Moral Agency in the Health Professions
Higher Education in the Context of the Kingdom of Ends

The Public Agent as Exemplar for the Private Professional:

A Dialogue
Points of Agreement
Geuras: The Public Administrator as Citizen Exemplar Model
Does Not Fully Apply to the Private Sector
Garofalo's Response

Summary

Common Ground, Common Future

Introduction

Requirements for Reform

Conclusion