Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century

This volume establishes a foundation for a uniform code of professional ethics for public administrators in the United States.

• Four cases of ethical and unethical decision making in context?Nathan Bedford Forrest, William Calley, Adolf Eichmann, and Mary Anne Wright?who resigned in protest over the 2003 invasion of Iraq

• Six figures depicting the process of ethical decision making within a public organization

• An extensive bibliography listing of the major sources on administrative ethics in print and online

• An index of key thinkers and theories involving administrative ethics