Taking tough choices seriously: Public administration and individual moral agency

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: O'Kelly, Ciaran; Dubnick, Melvin J.
• 署名单位: Queens University Belfast; University System Of New Hampshire; University of New Hampshire
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1053-1858
• DOI: 10.1093/jopart/mui050
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 393-415
• 关键词: social equity; decision-making; whistle-blowers; service; POLITICS; ETHICS; rationality; CORRUPTION; bureaucrat; authority

摘要

Using the concepts of thick and thin relationships as the basis for ethical behavior, this paper critiques the emphasis on discretion in the mainstream administrative ethics literature and argues that moral and other dilemmas facing public administrators provide a more useful frame. Two examples drawn from the UK Hutton Investigation into the death of David Kelly are used to demonstrate the relevance and usefulness of this approach.