Ethics for Bureaucrats: An Essay on Law and Values, Second EditionThis 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." |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Chapter 3 | 21 |
Chapter 1 | 23 |
Conclusion | 47 |
Some Approaches to Ethics | 60 |
Conclusion | 84 |
EQUALITY | 97 |
Sex | 140 |
National Security | 194 |
Equality | 217 |
Chapter 5 | 225 |
New Property | 245 |
Notes | 274 |
CONCLUSION | 281 |
Constitution of the United States of America | 295 |
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