This important volume looks at conflicts of interest, codes of
ethics, and the regulation of corruption in the United States,
Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the European Community.
It finds that there is less corruption than ever before, but the
gap between public expectations and perceptions has nevertheless
widened. Moreover, it questions the dominant academic approach to
applied ethics, with its emphasis on training, standards and
procedures, and, ultimately, regulation.
In contrast, the authors featured in this volume argue that
governance is a social process. Ethical governing means attending
to the relational aftermath of complex decisions - the ways in
which decisions and their execution affect and sustain social
relationships. Moreover, applied ethical reasoning in this context
must not only confront certain stock issues, but must also lead to
widespread participation in decision-making processes. Viewed in
this way, ethical governing means a respectful discourse involving
widespread participation of legitimate viewpoints.
Consequently, the authors suggest that the nearly universal
dissatisfaction with the state of public ethics is a manifestation
of something deeper and more profound. As one author explains,
public perceptions won???t look up so long as politics remains a
spectator sport, dominated by "sleaze ball tactics and shrinking
sound bites."
*Concentrates on economically developed nations, with stable
polities, traditions of popular government, legal systems grounded
in common law, and relatively low levels of corruption
*Deals with countries who have adopted "New Public Management"
style of government
*Focuses on countriesincreasingly distressed about the ethics of
public officials
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