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Paper Outline: Ethics in Public Administration

Introduction

In this section of the paper I will be introducing the concept of public administration and how governmental agencies intervene in incorporating strategies of administering public regulations.

Public administration theory also applies to a distinction between an academic discipline and a profession and contains approaches from organization theory, politics, governance, and law.

Discussion

This section of the paper will discuss various historical perspectives of ethical values in public administration and theories which have been developed over time and outline certain ethical duties of a public administrator.

The House Ethics Manual will serve as a good illustration of the scope of codes of conduct for government service.

Government officials can affect millions of their fellow citizens very directly by their decisions.

Conclusion

The section will conclude the paper the paper with a though of ethical implications in the public administrative framework.

Ethics in Public Administration

Introduction

There is no single theory of public administration. Rather, public administration theory contains a complex of statements regarding what administration is, the meaning of the public, who creates public administration, what the goals of public administration are, and how public administration should fulfill its tasks. Therefore, administration theories have always been and continue to be interdisciplinary, influenced by concepts from history, law, sociology, political science, management, and even psychology (Sheeran, pp. 33-37). Public administration theory also applies to a distinction between an academic discipline and a profession and contains approaches from organization theory, politics, governance, and law. This paper provides an overview of the development of ethical theories for the public sector also examines some contemporary challenges in this area. It examines more recent thought that sees the influence of values and ethics on administrative decisions and proposes that the distinction between politics and administration is not as clear as it has been considered in the past (Naswa, pp. 74-81).

Discussion

There are three general questions about the extent to which those in government are properly held under ethical standards in their relations to their fellow citizens. The first is whether in a representative democracy the representatives are entitled to use independent ethical judgment (the representative as trustee) or whether they must do what their constituents want (the representative as agent or delegate). There will be, second, questions of professional ethics. Finally, there is the question of dirty hands, of whether political life requires those in government to act in violation of moral obligations that would be incumbent on them if they were not public officials (Milakovich, Gordon, pp. 84-87).

The answer to the question about individual judgment depends on what role is ascribed to the representative. Hobbes defined representation as acting in the name of another who has authorized the action, so that the representative's act is ascribed to and binds the represented. He thought that representation could be limited in time or scope, but that when people authorize a sovereign by the social contract they make that sovereign their unlimited representative. For John Locke (1632-1704), the supremacy of the legislature is provisional, being dependent on ...