Value and Virtue in Public Administration A Comparative Perspective

by Kim, Pan Suk; De Vries, Michiel S.

• ISBN13: 9780230236479
• ISBN10: 0230236472
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780230353886
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways of enabling the public sector to balance the values that are presently dominant with classic values such as accountability, representation, equality, neutrality, transparency and the public interest.

Author Biography

Michiel S. De Vries is chair in public Administration at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His research interests include policy evaluation, policy change and comparative public administration. He is Vice-President of IASIA, and a member of the editorial board of IRAS and other journals on public administration. He is also the chair of the IASIA working group on Local Governance and Development and the chair of the NISPACEE working group on Public Administration Reform in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Pan Suk Kim is Underwood Distinguished Professor of Public Administration in the College of Government and Business at Yonsei University, South Korea and the Director of the Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development (IPAID) at Yonsei University. He is also President of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) and the Vice Chairman of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (UN/CEPA). He previously worked in the Korean central government as a Secretary to the President for Personnel Policy.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Value and Virtue in Public Administration; M.S de Vries&P.Suk Kim
Governance and Values in Contemporary Public Service; C.Garofalo
Public Virtue Approaches; B.Tholen
Ethics and Globalization in Historical Perspective: The Relevance of Socrates in our Days; D.Argyriades
The Cultural-Economic Perspective on Values and Virtues; E.de Jong
The Social Psychology Perspective on Values and Virtues; I.Sobis& M.S. de Vries
The Institutional Perspective on Values and Virtues; E.Ostrom&V.Ostrom
Public Administration as a Menetype B: Re-discovering Trichotomies; B.Cutting&A.Kouzmin
Contemporary Trends and Dilemmas of Administrative Ethics in the Developing World; M.Shamul Haque
The Value Profile of Civil Servants in New European Democracies through the Lens of Embedded Ethics; J.Palidauskaite
The Evil and its Cure: Clientelism, Corruption and their Institutional Remedies in Latin America; C.W.Andrews
Perils and Prospects in Four African Countries; M.Sindane 
Public Sector Value and Virtue and the OECD; C.E.Lynch&T.D.Lynch
Values and Virtues in the Japanese Public Sector; H.Kudo
Conclusions; M.S de Vries&P.Suk Kim