The Ethics of Public Administration

Sara R. Jordan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration and The Graduate School at the University of Hong Kong, where her research interests include civil service and research ethics.Phillip W. Gray is Lecturer, Humanities Department, United States Coast Guard Academy. He has taught at various universities in Hong Kong, and his research focuses on international political theory, morality in warfare, and totalitarian politics.

Acknowledgments PART I Introduction 1 Public Administration Ethics through Time and Place 2 The Five E's of Orthodox Public Administration PART II Ethical Traditions for Public Administration 3 Ethical Traditions of India 4 Ethical Traditions of Daoism 5 Ethics in the Buddhist Traditions 6 Traditions of Confucian Ethics 7 Ethics in the Judaic Tradition 8 Ethics in the Constitutionalist and Republican Traditions 9 Ethics in the Christian Tradition 10 Ethics in the Traditions of Islam 11 Ethics in the Traditions of Africa 12 Ethics in the Liberal Tradition 13 Marxist-Leninist Ethical Traditions 14 Ethics in the Russian Tradition PART III Conclusion 15 Revisiting the "Global" in the Challenges of Global Governance Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

Jordan and Gray offer practitioners in the field a comprehensive historical overview that traces the philosophical and ethical traditions of public administration across the dominant global cultures. -- "Choice"