Combating Corruption Encouraging Ethics or Administrative Law

Combating Corruption, Encouraging Ethics: A Practical Guide to Management Ethics

Author: William L Richter

In their second edition of Combating Corruption, Encouraging Ethics, William L. Richter and Frances Burke update this essential staple to delve deeply into the unique ethical problems of twenty-first century public administration. Combating Corruption, Encouraging Ethics offers both the depth demanded by graduate courses in administrative ethics and the accessibility necessary for an undergraduate introduction to public administration.

Table of Contents:

Preface     ix
Ethics: Foundations and Challenges     1
Introductory Essay
Ethical Foundations: Virtue, Consequence, Principle     11
Virtue, Habit, and Ethics   Aristotle     11
On Virtue   Terry Cooper     12
The Prince   Niccolo Machiavelli     15
Utilitarianism   John Stuart Mill     17
Principle: The Categorical Imperative   Immanuel Kant     20
The Ethical Triangle   James Svara     22
Gyges's Ring     29
Chapter Discussion Questions     29
For Further Exploration     29
Responsibility and Accountability     31
The Study of Administration   Woodrow Wilson     31
Politics as a Vocation   Max Weber     33
The Friedrich-Finer Debate     35
Public Policy and the Nature of Administrative Responsibility   Carl Joachim Friedrich     35
Administrative Responsibility in Democratic Government   Herman Finer     37
Ethics and the Public Service   Stephen K. Bailey     38
Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics   Ruth W. Grant   Robert O. Keohane     42
Following Orders     45
Chapter Discussion Questions     45
For Further Exploration     46
Twenty-First Century Challenges: Global Dimensions/Changing Boundaries     47
The New Public Administrator   Glenn L. Starks     47
Megaprojects and Risk   Bent B. Flyvbjerg   Nils Bruzelius   Werner Rothengatter     52
The World We Could Win   Michael Duggett   Fabienne Maron     58
The CAUX Round Table Principles for Business$dCAUX Round Table     60
Balance Between Electronic Access and Privacy Rights   Blake Harris     62
Integrity at the United Nations     65
Chapter Discussion Questions     66
For Further Exploration     66
Ethical Problems: Some Blatant, Some Not So Obvious     69
Introductory Essay
Understanding Fraud, Waste, and Corrupt Practices     75
An Organizational Perspective on Corruption   Yadong Luo     75
Corruption and Governance   Gerald E. Caiden     78
What Is Corruption?$dU.S. Agency for International Development     80
Fighting Corruption Globally$dTransparency International     81
Corruption in the Not-for-Profit Sector$dMiami-Dade County     83
The Adjunct Professor     85
Chapter Discussion Questions     86
For Further Exploration     87
Graft, Bribery, and Conflict of Interest     89
Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft   William L. Riordan     89
Struggling Against Bribery   John T. Noonan, Jr.     91
Conflict of Interest in Nonprofit Ethics   David Schultz     94
Extremism in the Search for Virtue   Kathryn G. Denhardt   Stuart C. Gilman     99
The Gift of a Carpet     102
Chapter Discussion Questions     103
For Further Exploration     104
Lying, Cheating, and Deception     105
Lies for the Public Good   Sissela Bok     105
Lying in the Public Interest   Lynn Pasquerella   Alfred G. Killilea     108
"Plausible Deniability"   John Poindexter   David Boren     114
Distorting Scientific Research$dUnion of Concerned Scientists     116
Greater Good Versus Falsification     120
Chapter Discussion Questions     121
For Further Exploration     121
Privacy, Secrecy, and Confidentiality     123
Secrecy in the Bush Administration   U.S. House Committee Minority Staff     123
Privacy in the United States and the European Union   U.S. Department of Commerce     129
HIPAA Compliance   Christina Torode     131
USA Patriot Act: Privacy v. Security   Maura King Scully     132
Not Just a Driver's License   Amitai Etzioni     135
"Outing" Agents and Protecting Sources     138
Chapter Discussion Questions     139
For Further Exploration     139
Abuse of Authority and 'Administrative Evil"     141
The Malek Manual   Frederick Malek     141
The Banality of Evil   Hannah Arendt     144
Torture as Public Policy/   James Pfiffner     147
What About Evil?   H. George Frederickson     150
History as Cause: Columbia and Challenger$dColumbia Accident Investigation Board     152
When the County Knows Best?     154
Chapter Discussion Questions     156
For Further Exploration     156
Strategies: What to Do When the Angels Are Missing     157
Introductory Essay
Establishing Expectations, Providing Guidelines, and Building Trust     165
Maintaining Government Integrity   Amy Comstock     165
The Investors' Advocate$dSecurities and Exchange Commission (SEC)     167
Trust in Government: Ethics Measures in OECD Countries$dOECD     169
Data Regulation: Measuring Governance and Corruption$dThe World Bank     171
Maximizing Trust, Minimizing Conflicts   Robert Meyers   Christina Prkic     172
Batho Pele Principles and Service Delivery   Kishore Raga   John Derek Taylor     174
The ASPA Code of Ethics$dAmerican Society for Public Administration     175
Are You an Ethical Public Official?$dICMA     178
Legal, Wrong, or Morally Required?     182
Chapter Discussion Questions     183
For Further Exploration     183
Transparency, Whistle-Blowing, and Dissent     185
Dealing with Dissent: Learning to Listen   Richard A. Loverd     185
The Ethical Importance of Resigning   J. Patrick Dobel     189
Protecting the Whistle-blower   Roberta Ann Johnson     193
Circumscribed Protection: The Ceballos Case$dU.S. Supreme Court     197
Ethics, Transparency International, and the Private Sector   Jermyn Brooks     199
What Is a Whistle-Blower to Do?      201
Chapter Discussion Questions     202
For Further Exploration     202
Compliance, Oversight, and Sanctions     205
Government Accountability$dGAO     205
SEC and Oversight   William H. Donaldson     208
Funding GASB after Sarbanes-Oxley   William Voorhees     210
Governmental Nonprofit Oversight$dPanel on the Nonprofit Sector     212
Hurricane Relief Oversight$dPCIE/ECIE     215
Ignorance or Insider Trading?     218
Chapter Discussion Questions     218
For Further Exploration     219
Leadership and Individual Responsibility: Encouraging Ethics     221
Ethics Advice to a New Public Servant   Kenneth Ashworth     221
The Moral Responsibility of Individuals in Public Sector Organizations   Debra Stewart     225
Eliot Spitzer as a Moral Exemplar   William B. Eimicke     230
As a City Upon a Hill   John F. Kennedy     234
Mayors as Exemplars?     235
Chapter Discussion Questions     236
For Further Exploration     236
Index     239
About the Editors     247

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Administrative Law: Cases and Materials

Author: Ronald A Cass

Instructors who want a traditional administrative law casebook that supplies important contextual information have long favored this carefully crafted teaching tool. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: Cases and Materials, Fifth Edition, continues to present administrative law as a vital force in policymaking, law enactment, and politics through the use of case analysis and excerpted materials that explore policy theories.

Refined through years of successful classroom use, the casebook offers:

outstanding authorship from a team of expert scholars, including Colin S. Diver, who served on the National Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee

integration of doctrinal analysis and procedural rules with substantive policy areas to enable students to see the relevance of administrative law in policy and contemporary politics

clearly written introductions, transitional text, notes, and questions, all designed to stimulate student understanding

selected provisions from the Constitution of the United States and the Administrative Procedure Act, plus related provisions, in an appendix

a comprehensive Teacher's Manual that presents the authors' insights on teaching and outlines different approaches to the course

The scrupulously updated Fifth Edition presents new material on:

separation of powers, including Edmunds v. United States on the distinction between principal and inferior offices, the establishment and organization of the Department of Homeland Security, issues concerning the President's authority in the war on terrorism, and Telecom Ass'n v. FCC, regarding agencies sub-delegating their authority to state agencies

standards of judicial review, with notablecoverage of Chevron regarding air quality standards and extensive revision to accommodate the rules governing when Chevron applies, with a focus on Mead and related cases, such as Boeing v. United States

availability of judicial review, now including Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance on the definition of 'agency action' subject to judicial review, Public Citizen Health Research Group v. Chao on the reviewability of excessive agency delay, and Bennet v. Spear concerning the importance of the finality standard

adjudication, reflecting Justice Scalia's refusal to recuse himself from Cheney v. U.S. Dist. Court for the District of Columbia after traveling with Cheney on a duck-hunting trip and discussion of Sprietsma v. Mercury Maine regarding preemption of state law by federal agency under the Federal Boat Safety Act

licensing, now with the inclusion of National Cable & Telecommunications Ass'n v. Brand X Internet Services on the FCC's treatment of competing internet services

the war on terror's effects on government's ability to withhold information from the public

recent Supreme Court decisions, such as Sprietsma v. Mercury Marine dealing with preemption of the Federal Boat Safety Act over a state common-law tort action and Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila regarding ERISA preempting individuals from suing their HMOs for refusing to pay for recommended treatment