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Palgrave Value and Virtue in Public Administration A Comparative Perspective by Michiel S. De Vries, P. Kim
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._x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
Introduction to Value and Virtue in Public Administration; M.S de Vries & Pan S. Kim Governance and Values in Contemporary Public Service; C.Garofalo Public Virtue Approaches; B.Tholen Ethics and Globalization in 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 Civil Servants 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 & Pan S. Kim_x000D_