1st Edition

The Ideal of Public Service Reflections on the Higher Civil Service in Britain

By Barry O'Toole Copyright 2006
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

A close examination of the ethics of higher civil servants in Britain and how they have been undermined by recent developments in public administration. Barry O'Toole tackles key questions such as: how should public servants behave? how should they be encouraged to think ethically? how should they be motivated to do so? Focusing on the role of public service,... Read more

1. The Ideal of Public Service  2. Philosophy, Politics and Administration  3. British Public Administration and the Ideal of Public Service  4. Morals Markets and Modernisation: Public Administration Post-Fulton  5. The Ideal of Public Service: Some Reflections on the Higher Civil Service in Britain

Biography

Barry O'Toole