Ethical reasoning in a time of revolution: A study of local officials in Poland
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Stewart, DW; Sprinthall, N; Siemienska, R
署名单位：
University of Warsaw
刊物名称：
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
ISSN/ISSBN：
0033-3352
DOI：
10.2307/3109991
发表日期：
1997
页码：
445-453
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摘要：
What system of moral reasoning is characteristic for newly appointed and elected officials in post-Communist Poland? In extensive structured interviews with 485 local officials who experienced the transition from communism to democracy we expected to find a strong preference for principled reasoning when making ethical decisions in the work setting. In fact we found these officials to be remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts in their preference for ''law and duty'' as the basis for decision making Few of the factors established in research an U.S. public administrators traditionally thought to be related to variation in moral reasoning had significant impact here. The two striking exceptions in Poland were gender and attitude toward the issue of decommunization, both of which showed significant relationships with a tendency to reason at a principled level. Follow-up focus group sessions illuminated these findings.
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