Empowering Public Administrators Ethics and Public Service Values

Introduction  

Amanda M. Olejarski and Sue M. Neal  

Part 1:  Ontology and Epistemology  

1. Ethics and Public Service Values: Ontological and Epistemic Frameworks for Study and Practice  

Sharon H. Mastracci and Norma M. Riccucci  

2. Autonomy as Public Service  

Beverly Harkema  

3. Call the Budget Police!: How the Public Service Values of Ontology and Epistemology Can Support Public Administrators in a Gray Budgeting Environment  

Ratna Okhai and Terry N. Henley  

4.  The Ethical Voids of the Principal Agency and Stewardship Approach  

Rik Koolma  

Part 2:  The Public Interest  

5.  How Public Administrators Empower Themselves  

David S. Reed  

6.  Political Polarization, Transcendent Values, and the Urgency of Moral Leadership among Campus Leaders as Public Administrators  

Lynn Pasquerella  

7.  The Ethics of Public Employee Disparaging Private Social Media Use, Erosion of Trust, and the Advancement of the Public Interest  

Marcus D. Mauldin  

Part 3:  Bureaucracy in a Democracy  

8.  Principle Organizational Dissent and Public Service  

Robert Roberts  

9.  The Influence of Public Service Values on Implementation and Performance: Evidence from the Housing Policy  

Melissa Gomez Hernandez  

10.  The Institutionalization of Integrity Policies and the Management of a Growing Ethics Bureaucracy  

Christoph Demmke  

Part 4:  Balancing Politics and Administration  

11.  Balancing Politics and Administration: Dangers of Administrative Discretion  

Steven G. Koven  

12.  Ethical Codes, the Politics-Administration Dichotomy, and Public Financial Managers  

Vickie Edwards and Vincent Reitano  

13.  Discretionary Ethics and Governing Public Affairs in Jails and Prisons: Upholding Constitutional Rights to Health and Safety.  

Cynthia Golembeski, Gabriel Eber, Carolyn Sufrin, Jacqueline Lantsman, and Homer Venters  

Part 5:  The Hollowing of Government  

14.  Mending the Fragile Credibility of a Hollow State with Storytelling  

Jourdan A. Davis  

15.  Gaming the System: Ethical Constraints in Implementing Co-production  

Meril Antony  

16.  Sports as Mirrors: Athletes and Agenda Setting in a Hollowed-Out State  

Jamie Levine Daniel & M. Blair Thomas  

Part 6:  Transparency in Reporting  

17.  Public Service Values and Financial Reporting in U.S. Local Governments: Reconciling Transparency in External Financial Reporting with Political Expectations  

Jane Beckett-Camarata  

18. Transparency in Preserving and Administering Sites of Collective Memory  

Daniel Boden  

19.  New Public Management Reforms, Ethics Training Programs, and Ethical Conduct of Public Servants in Tanzania  

Wilfred Lameck  

Conclusion  

Amanda M. Olejarski and Sue M. Neal  

Biography

Amanda M. Olejarski teaches public administration courses at the University of Central Florida. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Public Integrity. Her research has been published in the top public administration journals, and she is the author of several books on ethical decision-making including Ethics for Contemporary Bureaucrats (Routledge, 2020).

Sue M. Neal is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Arkansas State University, USA. She is the Cofounder of the Veterinary Care Accessibility Project, a research nonprofit aimed at improving animal welfare in the United States and beyond. She was employed for over two decades as an executive director in the nonprofit sector and has done extensive research consulting for a number of national animal welfare organizations. Her research interests include ethics in the public sector and animal welfare, and her work has appeared in a number of journals. Dr. Neal serves as the Managing Editor of the journal Public Integrity.

"This ambitious collection succeeds in providing fresh ethical perspectives to the field of public administration, perennial value concerns about public service, and contemporary problems. Olejarski (Univ. of Central Florida) and Neal (Arkansas State Univ.), the editor-in-chief and managing editor of Public Integrity, have brought together outstanding contributors to offer deeply insightful essays. Each chapter includes purposeful questions for practitioners to consider. Recommended for doctoral and advanced master’s students. Faculty will find this volume to be an invaluable instructional and scholarly resource."

M. L. Godwin, University of La Verne, USA

"High praise for the new book which addresses the importance of different public service approaches. Empowering Public Administrators: Ethics and Public Services Values is a must read book for anyone wanting to understand the complexities, nuances and the creation of public service approaches from ontology and epistemology perspectives. Olejarksi and Neal have sagely assembled a collection of chapters that are both thought-provoking and also very useful from an organizational level."

Richard Greggory Johnson III, University of San Francisco, USA