American Public Service: Constitutional and Ethical Foundations: Constitutional and Ethical Foundations / Edition 1

by Sheila Kennedy, David Schultz

Overview

Questions of ethics in public administration are increasingly in the news, where commentators seem too often detached from the sources of those ethics and their application to current political conflicts. American Public Service: Constitutional and Ethical Foundations examines public administration ethics as contextualized by constitutional, legal, and political values within the Unit ed States. Through case studies, hypothetical examples, and an easy-to-read discussion format, the authors explore what these values mean for specific duties of government managers and for the resolution of many contemporary issues confronting public sector officials. Key Features: • Describes the philosophical underpinnings of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights • Identifies the values that anchor and define what government and public administrators should do. • Indicates where these values fit into a framework for moral decision-making in the public sector, and how they apply to discussions of current controversies in public administration. • Written by authors with rich experience as both lawyers and academics in public administration programs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763760021
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	07/15/2010
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Sheila Kennedy is a professor of law and public policy at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI, a member of the Philanthropic Studies faculty, an adjunct professor of Political Science, and a faculty fellow at both the Center for Religion and American Culture and the Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence. Before joining the faculty, she worked in both government and the nonprofit sector. In addition to her classes in public administration and policy, she teaches courses in media and public affairs, and religion and public policy. She is the author/editor of six books and fifty-plus articles and book chapters on subjects ranging from the Bill of Rights, to privatization, to the influence of religious culture on American policy.

David Schultz is a Hamline University professor in the School of Business.He teaches classes in public administration and state and local government, including a course on government and public sector ethics. He also holds an appointment at the University of Minnesota Law School where he teaches election law, state constitutional law, and legal ethics.Holding both a law degree and a doctorate in political science, Professor Schultz has worked in state and local government and does extensive ethics training for local government.David is author/editor of more than 25 books and 70 articles on various aspects of law, government, ethics, and American politics.

Table of Contents

Part One Defining the Constitutional Ethic
Chapter 1 The Constitution, Law, and Public Service Ethics
Chapter 2 American Political Culture and Constitutional Ethics
Chapter 3 The Constitutional Foundations of a Public Service Ethic
Part Two Applying the Constitutional Ethic
Chapter 4 The Constitution at Work: Representation, Neutrality, and the Public Interest
Chapter 5 Justice, Equality and Difference: Ethics and The Fourteenth Amendment
Chapter 6 Administrative Decision Making and the Constitutional Ethic
Part Three The Constitutional Ethic in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 7 Blurred Boundaries: Private Actors and Public Governance
Chapter 8 Constitutional Ethics and Our Morphing Media
Chapter 9 A Constitutional Ethic for a Postmodern Society