cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Ethical Foundations and Perspectives -- 1. Democratic Morality: Back to the Future -- Ethics -- Democratic Morality -- Public Servant Ethics -- The Ethical Spirit of Public Administration -- Public Administration Context for Virtue Ethics -- The Practice of Public Administration -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 2. The I That Is We: Recognition and Administrative Ethics -- Recognition, Dialectic, and Parallax -- Recognition and Morality -- Recognition and Administrative Ethics -- The Parallax of Administrative Obligation -- In Place of a Conclusion -- References -- 3. Ethical Failings, Incompetence, and Administrative Evil: Lessons From Katrina and Iraq -- Administrative Evil -- The Limits of Professional Ethics -- The Challenge of Administrative Evil -- Public Service Ethics and Incompetence -- The Response to Hurricane Katrina -- FEMA: Its Background and History -- Reconstructing Iraq, or Was It Deconstructing Iraq? -- Are We Talking About Administrative Evil? -- References -- II. Ethical Management and Ethical Leadership -- References -- 4. Administrative Leadership and Transparency -- Moral Agency, Moral Leadership, and Transparency in Public Service -- Privatization in the United States -- The Vicious Circle of Distrust -- Reframing Administrative Leadership and Transparency -- References -- 5. Implications of Organizational Influence on Ethical Behavior: An Analysis of the Perceptions of Public Managers -- Organizational Influence on Ethics -- Definition of Public Organizations -- Conceptualizing Organizational Culture and Climate -- Operationalizing Public Organization Culture -- Organizational Ethical Climate as a Measure of Public Organization's Ethics -- Research Methods -- Results -- Summary of Findings -- Future Research Directions.

Implications for Public Management -- Conclusions -- References -- 6. Public Management in a Culture of Waiver -- What Is the Culture of Waiver? -- How the Culture of Waiver Evolved -- Unraveling of the Culture of Waiver -- Issues for Public Managers: Confront a Culture of Waiver or Build a Culture of Compliance? -- References -- 7. Ethics Management and Ethical Management -- Individual Agency and Organizational Purpose -- Leadership -- Mapping Management and Leadership -- Conclusion: Combining Management and Leadership -- References -- III. International and Comparative Perspectives -- 8. Politics and Numbers: The Iron Cage of Governance Indices -- Numbers and Governance -- From Democracy to Good Governance -- Measuring and Standardizing Governance -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 9. Fighting Corruption Globally and Locally -- The Advent of Global Anticorruption: Deliverance or False Dawn? -- Global Movement or Industry? -- In the Beginning: The United States and Multinational Companies -- Transparency International: Values and Interests -- Divergent Voices -- Fighting Corruption: A Shared Goal? -- Anticorruption Policy and Politics -- Conclusion -- References -- 10. Global Versus Local Perspectives of Anticorruption Reforms in Italy -- The Global Leadership of Major International Governmental Organizations -- Global Analyses of Major International Nongovernmental Organizations With Specific Reference to Italy -- An Overview of the Italian Cultural Environment: Transformism, Clientelism, and the Mafia -- Governance and Anticorruption Reforms in Italy: Strengths and Weaknesses -- Conclusions -- References -- 11. Ethical Management and Leadership: Is an Ethical Perspective a Necessary Component of Good Management and Organizational Leadership? -- The New Relationship Between the Public Administrationand the Citizen.

Toward New Patterns of Government in the Public Sector -- The Reform of the Public Sector in Italy: Toward Patterns of Managing Publicly -- Public Ethics as a Critical Element in Maintaining New Patterns of Public Governance -- References -- 12. Measuring Integrity: A Dutch-American Comparative Project -- Ethics and Integrity in the Public Sector -- The Survey -- The Research Population -- The Results -- Discussion -- Note -- References -- 13. A Two-Pronged Methodological Approach for Measuring Public and Private Sector Organizational Core Values: The Importance of Content and Context -- Researching Values -- Epistemological and Ontological Aspects of Value Research -- Which Approach Fits the Research Goals and Research Questions? -- Research Design: A Combined or Two-Pronged Approach -- Collecting the Data -- Data Analysis and Reporting -- Reflection -- Conclusion: Value Solidity -- References -- 14. Developing the "Ethical Competence" of Public Officials: A Capacity-Building Approach -- Public Trust and Professional Ethics for Public Officials -- Seeing the Ethics Problem: The Limitations of Codes of Ethics -- Developing Ethical Competence -- Teaching Ethics Constructively -- Evaluation of Training Effectiveness: The Adaptation Projects -- Institutionalizing Ethics and Integrity Standards: A "Fifth Component" -- Acknowledgment -- References -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index.