Are public officials morally justified in threatening violence,
engaging in deception, or forcing citizens to act for their own
good? Can individual officials be held morally accountable for the
wrongs that governments commit? Dennis Thompson addresses these
questions by developing a conception of political ethics that
respects the demands of both morality and politics. He criticizes
conventional conceptions for failing to appreciate the difference
democracy makes, and for ascribing responsibility only to isolated
leaders or to impersonal organizations. His book seeks to recapture
the sense that men and women, acting for us and together with us in
a democratic process, make the moral choices that govern our public
life.
Thompson surveys ethical conflicts of public officials over a
range of political issues, including nuclear deterrence, foreign
intervention, undercover investigation, bureaucratic negligence,
campaign finance, the privacy of officials, health care, welfare
paternalism, drug and safety regulation, and social
experimentation. He views these conflicts from the perspectives of
many different kinds of public officials - elected and appointed
executives at several levels of government, administrators, judges,
legislators, governmental advisers, and even doctors, lawyers,
social workers, and journalists whose professional roles often
thrust them into public life.
In clarifying the ethical problems faced by officials, Thompson
combines theoretical analysis with practical prescription, and
begins to define a field of inquiry for which many have said there
is a need but to which few have yet contributed. Philosophers,
political scientists, policy analysts, sociologists, lawyers, and
other professionals interested in ethics in government will gain
insight from this book.
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