Ethics in Public Policy and Management

Alan Lawton is Professor of Management at Federation Business School, Federation University Australia.Zeger van der Wal is Assistant Dean and Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.Leo Huberts is Professor of Public Administration at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

‘Ethics and Public Policy in Management challenges traditional boundaries and provides the global perspective necessary for understanding the ethical issues confronting public managers in the 21st century. The multi-national scope of the chapters and diverse analytical frameworks place ethics at the forefront of good governance.’ - Danny L. Balfour, Grand Valley State University, USA‘An excellent collection covering an eclectic range of issues from public service motivation to the ethics involved in space exploration. It poses a series of thoughtful questions for global ethics research.’ - Dr James Downe, Reader, Public Policy & Management, Cardiff Business School, UK

• Part I: Introduction 1. The Scope and Scale of Ethics in Public Policy and Management Part II: Theorising the Practice(s) of Ethics 2. A Public Ethics of Care: Bringing ethics of care into public ethics research 3.Adding Colours to the Shades of Grey: Enriching the integrity discourse with virtue ethics concepts 4. Discourses of Deceit, Political Myth and Ideological Capital in Public Administration Part III: Understanding and Combating Corruption 5. History and Public Ethics 6. Building Integrity in Public Sector Operations 7. Theoretical (Mis)understanding? Applying Principal-Agent and Collective Action Theories to the Problem of Corruption in Systemically Corrupt Countries 8. The Ethics of Public Officials in the United States: Strong, bent, broken? Part IV: Managing Integrity 9. Institutionalizing Integrity Management: Challenges and solutions in times of financial crises and austerity measures 10. Ethical Leadership Research: Looking beyond the leader 11. The Limits of Rule Governance 12. Researching and Improving the Effectiveness of Ethics Training Part V: Ethics Across Boundaries 13. Public Service Motivation in a Complex Public Sector 14.What Does Working in the Public Services Mean? Describing the public service ethos in practice 15. Conflicts of Interest and Ethical Decision-Making: Mainland China and Hong Kong comparison Part VI: Expanding Ethical Policy Domains 16. Ethical Decisions and the Great Moral Challenge of our Time 17. The Undiscovered Country: Establishing an ethical paradigm for space activities in the 21st Century Part VII: Conclusion 18. Towards a Global Ethics: Wishful thinking or a strategic necessity?