Overview

Public administrators need to be empowered to make difficult decisions. Acting in the public interest often means doing what is ethical even when it is an unpopular choice. Yet, too often, public servants at the local, state, and federal levels internalize the notion that their hands are tied and that they are limited in their ability to effect change. Empowering Public Administrators: Ethics and Public Service Values provides a much-needed antidote to inaction, offering a new lens for viewing administrative decision-making and behavior. This book makes a case for bringing historically significant theories to the forefront of public service ethics by applying them to a series of current ethical challenges in practice. Exploring administrative discretion as modern bureaucrats govern public affairs in a political context, this collection builds on the normative foundations of public administration and provides readers with a scaffold for understanding and practicing public service values. Questions for discussion and applications to practice are included in each chapter making this collection of interest to public affairs master’s and doctoral students as well as public service practitioners.

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Author:   Amanda M. Olejarski (University of Central Florida, USA) ,  Sue M. Neal (Arkansas State University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.902kg
ISBN:  

9781032651828

ISBN 10:   1032651822
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   06 February 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Ontology and Epistemology 1. Ethics and Public Service Values: Ontological and Epistemic Frameworks for Study and Practice 2. Autonomy as Public Service 3. Call the Budget Police! How the Public Service Values of Ontology and Epistemology can Support Public Administrators in a Gray Budgeting Environment 4. The ethical voids of the principal agency and stewardship approach Part II: The Public Interest 5. How Public Administrators Empower Themselves 6. Political Polarization, Transcendent Values, and the Urgency of Moral Leadership Among Campus Leaders as Public Administrators 7. The Ethics of Public Employee Disparaging Private Social Media Use, Erosion of Trust and the Advancement of the Public Interest Part III: Bureaucracy in a Democracy 8. Principle Organizational Dissent and Public Service 9. The Influence of Public Service Values on Implementation and Performance: Evidence from the Housing Policy 10. The Institutionalization of Ethics policies and the management of a growing ethics bureaucracy Part IV: Balancing Politics and Administration 11. Balancing Politics and Administration: Dangers of Administrative Discretion 12. Ethical Codes, the Politics-Administration Dichotomy, and Public Financial Managers 13. Discretionary ethics and governing public affairs in jails and prisons: Upholding constitutional rights to health and safety. Part V: The Hollowing of Government 14. Mending the Fragile Credibility of a Hollow State with Storytelling 15. Gaming the System: Ethical Constraints in Implementing Co-production 16. Sports as Mirrors: Athletes and Agenda Setting in a Hollowed-Out State Part VI: Transparency in Reporting 17. Public Service Values and Financial Reporting in U.S. Local Governments: Reconciling Transparency in External Financial Reporting with Political Expectations 18. Transparency in Preserving and Administering Sites of Collective Memory 19. New Public Management Reforms, Ethics Training Programs and Ethical Conduct of Public Servants in Tanzania Conclusion

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"""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"

""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

Author Information

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.

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