Public Sector Ethics: Compliance, Integrity, and Comparison (Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management)

Public Sector Ethics: Compliance, Integrity, and Comparison presents a comprehensive treatment of the subject of ethics in the public sector.What structural elements are necessary and how to create organizations that make ethics their priority are the questions that this edited book addresses.It focuses on ethics management in public organizations and includes national case studies from select low- to middle-income countries. Taken together, the chapters in this book cover the mechanisms, activities, and approaches that public organizations employ in ethics management.These are of utmost importance because the actions of public organizations affect citizens’ lives, liberties, and property, and their ethical character affects citizens’ faith in government.Numerous factors are at play in each instance of ethics management in public organizations, and controlling ethical behavior is difficult.This book suggests that effective ethics management requires a comprehensive approach.Traditional