Ethics for Bureaucrats

This important text integrates the study of ethics into public management training highlighting Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values-equality freedom and property-focusing on the pedagogical aspects of law and posing challenging questions to help readers apply theories to concrete situations. It includes a case index for further research. Topics of specific interest include abortion affirmative action bureaucratic bashing civil disobedience the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 the Iran-Contra scandal moral absolutism privileged communications religious fundamentalism and whistle blowing. The Midwest Review of Pubic Administration lauds it as …a unique teaching tool.