Integrity of Governance

Zeger van der Wal, National University of SingaporeKarin Lasthuizen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the NetherlandsGjalt De Graaf, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the NetherlandsFredérique Six, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the NetherlandsMieke van Tankeren, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the NetherlandsAndré van Montfort, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the NetherlandsHester Paanakker, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

This book addresses a most important, yet hardly addressed topic in the field of ethics, values and norms in governance, that is, the integrity of our elites, administrators and street level bureaucrats. For more than two decades, Leo Huberts has done in-depth investigations on this dimension of public ethics and this book is the excellent culmination thereof. Because the book addresses the definition of integrity, the causes of integrity problems and relates this to principles of governance, this book is a must-read for all scholars and students interested in understanding what causes our leaders and their staff sometimes to act differently than they are supposed to act. Michiel S de Vries/President of IASIA, Chair in Public Administration, Radboud University Nijmegen

• 1. Introduction; Leo Huberts 2 The Multi Disciplinarity of Ethics and Integrity of Governance; Leo Huberts 3 Integrity and Integritism; Leo Huberts 4. Governance and Integrity; Leo Huberts 5 What Is Valued in Politics and Administration; Leo Huberts and Zeger van der Wal 6 What Goes Wrong: Integrity Violations; Leo Huberts and Karin Lasthuizen 7 Why It Goes Wrong: Causes of Corruption; Leo Huberts and Gjalt de Graaf 8. What Is Done to Protect Integrity: Policies, Institutions, and Systems; Leo Huberts, Fredérique Six, Mieke van Tankeren, André van Montfort and Hester Paanakker 9 Placing Integrity of Governance in Context; Leo Huberts