2nd Edition

Ethics for Bureaucrats An Essay on Law and Values, Second Edition

By John Rohr Copyright 1989
354 Pages
by CRC Press

354 Pages
by Routledge

This 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... Read more

Foreword- Herbert J. Storing

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Introduction

Explaining Terms

Outlining the Argument

False Starts

Notes

Stating the Problem

The Reform Debate

Politics and Administration

The Demise of the Dichotomy

Conclusion

Notes

Regime Values

Some Approaches to Ethics

Regime Values

Conclusion

Notes

Equality

Race

Sex

Notes

Freedom

Speech and Press Religion

National Security

Freedom v. Equality

Notes

Property

Old Property

New Property

Notes

Conclusion

On Bureaucrat Bashing

Community and Individual

The Problem of Ambiguity

Notes

Appendix: Constitution of the United States of America

Case Index

Index

Biography

JOHN A. ROHR Center for Public Administration and Policy Virginia Polytechnic institute Blacksburg, Virginia

"About the previous edition. . . . . .well-written. . .an admirable and provocative attempt to avoid what the author terms 'moralistic bombers and pious platitudes.' "
---State Government Journal
". . .a unique teaching tool. "
---Midwest Review of Pubic Administration