Value and virtue in public administration: a comparative perspective

A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways of enabling the public sector to balance the values that are presently dominant with classic values such as accountability, representation, equality, neutrality,transparency and the public interest. MICHIEL S. DE VRIES Chair in Public Administration at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His research interests include policy evaluation, policy change and comparative public administration. He is Vice-Presidentof IASIA and a member of the editorial board of I.R.A.S and other journals onPublic Administration. He is also the chair of the IASIA working group on Local Governance and Development and the chair of the NISPACEE working group on Public Administration Reform in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. His latest books are 'The Importance of Neglect in Policy Making' (Palgrave, 2010), 'Improving Local Government' (Palgrave, 2008) and 'The Story behind Western Advice to Central Europe during its Transition'. His work has been widely published in journals. PAN SUK KIM Underwood Distinguished Professor of Public Administration in the College of Government and Business at Yonsei University, South Korea, and the Director of the Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development (IPAID) at Yonsei University. He is also President of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) and the Vice Chairman of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (UN/CEPA). He previously worked in the Korean central government as a Secretary to the President for Personnel Policy. His articles have been widely published and his most recent edited books are 'Public Administration and Public Governance in ASEAN Member Countries and Korea' (2009) and 'Civil Service System and Civil Service Reform in ASEAN Member Countries and Korea' (2010). . . INDICE: Introduction to Value and Virtue in Public Administration; 'M.S deVries' & 'P.Suk Kim - 'Governance and Values in Contemporary Public Service; 'C.Garofalo' - Public Virtue Approaches; 'B.Tholen - 'Ethics and Globalizationin Historical Perspective: The Relevance of Socrates in our Days; 'D.Argyriades - 'The Cultural-Economic Perspective on Values and Virtues; 'E.de Jong - 'The Social Psychology Perspective on Values and Virtues; 'I.Sobis' &' M.S. de Vries - 'The Institutional Perspective on Values and Virtues; 'E.Ostrom' & 'V.Ostrom - 'Public Administration as a Menetype B: Re-discovering Trichotomies; 'B.Cutting' & 'A.Kouzmin - 'Contemporary Trends and Dilemmas of Administrative Ethics in the Developing World; 'M.Shamsul Haque' - The Value Profile of CivilServants in New European Democracies through the Lens of Embedded Ethics; 'J.Palidauskaite - 'The Evil and its Cure: Clientelism, Corruption and their Institutional Remedies in Latin America; 'C.W.Andrews - 'Perils and Prospects in Four African Countries; 'M.Sindane - 'Public Sector Value and Virtue and the OECD; 'C.E.Lynch' & 'T.D.Lynch - 'Values and Virtues in the Japanese Public Sector; 'H.Kudo - 'Conclusions; 'M.S de Vries' & 'P.Suk Kim - ' -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23647-9
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 344
• Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés