Common Ground, Common Future: Moral Agency in Public Administration, Professions, and Citizenship

by Garofalo; Charles

• ISBN13: 9780824753375
• ISBN10: 0824753372
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Moral Agent, Moral Organization, and the Public Administrator	1	(16)
What Is a Moral Agent?	1	(4)
The Special Ethical Aspects of Public Organizations	5	(2)
Citizenship and Public Administration	7	(2)
The Ethical Environment of Public Administration	9	(1)
The Need for Ethical Reasoning in Public Administration	10	(5)
Moral Agency, the Public Administrator, and the Private Citizen	15	(1)
References	16	(1)
Chapter 2 Moral Agency in the Public Sector	17	(18)
The Ideal Public Administrator	18	(6)
The Legislator's Moral Agency	24	(4)
The Judiciary and Moral Agency	26	(1)
Classification of Moral Decisions in Public Administration	27	(1)
Evaluation	27	(1)
Conflicts of Obligations	28	(2)
Unclear Obligations	29	(1)
Bending and Breaking the Rules	30	(1)
Moral Whistle-Blowing	31	(1)
The Ideal and the Real	31	(1)
References	32	(3)
Chapter 3 Ethical Breakdowns in Public Administration	35	(14)
Insufficient Commitment	35	(5)
Self over Social Good	35	(1)
The Organization over Social Good	36	(1)
Organizational Goal Displacement	37	(2)
Personal Loyalties	39	(1)
Insufficient Commitment and Moral Agency	40	(1)
Excessive Commitment to Goals	40	(3)
Interorganizational Conflicts	40	(2)
Organizational Goals versus Public Values	42	(1)
Organizational Goals versus Moral Principles	42	(1)
Overcommitment and Moral Agency	43	(1)
Moral Dilemmas	43	(1)
The Public Administrator as Strong Evaluator	44	(2)
References	46	(3)
Chapter 4 Ethics in Business	49	(16)
CSR	49	(1)
Opponents of CSR	50	(2)
Proponents of CSR	52	(3)
Discussion	55	(1)
Perspectives on Government	56	(6)
Conclusion	62	(1)
References	63	(2)
Chapter 5 Managed Care	65	(14)
Origins and Structure of Managed Care	66	(2)
Moral Challenges of Managed Care	68	(7)
Alternative Perspectives on Managed Care	75	(2)
References	77	(2)
Chapter 6 The Legal Profession	79	(12)
The Client's Interest and the Interests of Justice	80	(3)
Moral Obligations Common to the Legal Profession	83	(2)
The Legal Profession and Public Service	85	(2)
Civil Law	87	(1)
Attorneys Committed to Causes	88	(1)
Conclusion	89	(1)
References	89	(2)
Chapter 7 Higher Education	91	(14)
Ethics in the Academy: Level I	92	(2)
Ethics in the Academy: Level 2	94	(1)
University-Government Partnerships	95	(2)
University-Business Partnerships	97	(3)
Intercollegiate Athletics	100	(2)
Conclusion	102	(1)
References	103	(2)
Chapter 8 Unifying Ethical Theory	105	(20)
Traditional Ethical Theories	105	(7)
Ethical Relativism	105	(1)
Teleological Ethical Theories	106	(2)
Deontological Ethical Theories	108	(2)
Intuitionist Theories	110	(1)
Virtue Theory	111	(1)
The Unity of the Absolutist Theories	112	(4)
Unifying Ethical Theories in the Decision-Making Process	113	(1)
The Citizenship of the Moral Agent	114	(2)
The Kantian Legislator in the Kingdom of Ends and the Moral Agent	116	(1)
The Unified Ethic, Communitarianism, and Individualism	117	(2)
Rawls and the Unified Ethic	119	(3)
References	122	(3)
Chapter 9 Applying the Unified Ethic to Moral Agency	125	(24)
The Moral Agent as Morally Responsible Citizen	125	(1)
Insufficient Commitment to Moral Values	125	(8)
Overcommitment to Specific Values	127	(1)
Conflicts among Moral Values	127	(4)
Clarification of the Role of the Moral Agent as Moral Exemplar	131	(2)
Transformation and Reconfiguration	133	(2)
Moral Agency in Business	135	(1)
Use of Foreign, Low-Wage Labor	136	(2)
Should Tobacco Companies Exist?	138	(2)
The Moral Exemplarship of the Private Executive	140	(1)
Moral Agency and the Attorney	141	(1)
Encouraging the Process of Moral Agency in the Health Professions	142	(2)
Higher Education in the Context of the Kingdom of Ends	144	(2)
References	146	(3)
Chapter 10 The Public Agent as Exemplar for the Private Professional: A Dialogue	149	(20)
Points of Agreement	150	(3)
Geuras: The Public Administrator as Citizen Exemplar Model Does Not Fully Apply to the Private Sector	153	(5)
Objection 1: I Have Argued That the Role of the Citizen Can Conflict with the Role of the Private Professional	158	(1)
Reply	158	(1)
Objection 2: I Have Argued That the Responsibilities of a Citizen to Promote the Public Interest Might Clash with One's Responsibilities to His or Her Own Moral Value System	158	(2)
Reply	159	(1)
Objection 3: 1 Have Argued That the Public Administrator, as a Moral Exemplar, Must Act Morally	160	(1)
Reply	160	(1)
Garofalo's Response	161	(4)
Summary	165	(4)
Chapter 11 Common Ground, Common Future	169	(16)
Introduction	169	(1)
Requirements for Reform	170	(10)
Adaptation of the Principles of the Blacksburg Manifesto	170	(1)
Political-Administrative Relations	171	(6)
Investment in Change	177	(3)
Conclusion	180	(2)
References	182	(3)
Index	185