- Course Code :
PAD 403
- Level :
Undergraduate
- Course Hours :
3.00
Hours
- Department :
Department of Public Administration
Instructor information :
Area of Study :
This course explores public service ethics as an applied discipline. It introduces students to historical traditions, relativism, teleology, deontology, intuitionism, and virtue theory. The course equips students with a set of rules, values and skills public servants and policy makers should have to take the right action in a particular situation. Students explore competing obligations that guide political actions inside and outside the government particularly when notions of what is good, just, and legitimate public policy are contested. Students have the opportunity to explore key aspects of professional ethics- conflict of interest, loyalty, duty, subordination. Students get to examine the underlying assumptions behind ethical responsibilities of public officials and government figures in democratic societies. The course further gives attention to the way in which institutional arrangements and reforms promote or inhibit moral choices and anticorruption strategies. It sets out a framework for analyzing ethical issues and making ethical decisions by exposing students to a wide range of case studies to examine different ethical issues from the point of view of various stakeholders.
Course Goals:
• Explain the scope of ethics in the public service.
• Layout the limits for confidentiality, loyalty and the public goods.
• Demonstrate historically important ethical theories.
• Apply a unified ethical theory to practical cases in public administration.
• Develop a theme of ethical integration.
• Present recent attempts to ethical reform.
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This course explores public service ethics as an applied discipline. It introduces students to historical traditions, relativism, teleology, deontology, intuitionism, and virtue theory. The course equips students with a set of rules, values and skills public servants and policy makers should have to take the right action in a particular situation. Students explore competing obligations that guide political actions inside and outside the government particularly when notions of what is good, just, and legitimate public policy are contested. Students have the opportunity to explore key aspects of professional ethics- conflict of interest, loyalty, duty, subordination. Students get to examine the underlying assumptions behind ethical responsibilities of public officials and government figures in democratic societies. The course further gives attention to the way in which institutional arrangements and reforms promote or inhibit moral choices and anticorruption strategies. It sets out a framework for analyzing ethical issues and making ethical decisions by exposing students to a wide range of case studies to examine different ethical issues from the point of view of various stakeholders.
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Books:
Recommended books :
Cox III, W. Raymond (ed), Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration: Concepts and Cases, M. E. Sharpe Inc., 2009.
T. W. Bluhm and A. R. Heineman, Ethics and Public Policy: Methods and Cases. Pearson, Prentice Hall, 2007.
L. Pasquerella, G. A. Killilea, and M. Vocino (eds), Ethical Dilemmas in Public Administration, Praeger, 1996.
Kathryn G. Denhardt, The Ethics of Public Service: Resolving Moral Dilemmas in Public Organizations, Greenwood Press, 1988.
Periodicals :
Journal of Public Administration and Policy Research
http://academicjournals.org/journal/JPAPR/article-abstract/0EAB99617395
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