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- Title
Hierarchy, Virtue, and the Practice of Public Administration.
- Authors
Cooper, Terry L.
- Abstract
The article considers a general approach to the development of normative administrative ethics which would be most appropriate for public administration and, more specifically, the code of ethics of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA). In its present form the ASPA code of ethics is a conglomeration of prescribed virtues and modes of conduct, with some mention of specific goods, most of which have value and relevance when taken individually. However, what is lacking is a coherent ethical identity for public administration. The specific purpose is to explore an ethic of virtue for public administration which complements and supports ethical analysis of principles and alternatives for conduct by identifying certain desirable predispositions to act. The specific substantive proposals concerning internal goods and virtues are intended to be suggestive and provocative of a focus for normative deliberation, not as a final prescription. The development of such prescriptions is not the work of individuals but of colleagues devoted to a practice or in search of a practice.
- Subjects
PUBLIC administration ethics; PUBLIC administration; ETHICS; POLITICAL ethics; AMERICAN Society for Public Administration; CODES of ethics; VIRTUE; POLITICAL science
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1987, Vol 47, Issue 4
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/975312