Research Catalog

Title

Public ethics / edited by Richard Bellamy, Antonino Palumbo.

Publication

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Bellamy, Richard (Richard Paul)
• Palumbo, Antonino.

Description

xx, 402 p.; 26 cm.

Summary

Political realists are accustomed to argue that ethical considerations have no place in public affairs. This is always a debatable view: realism habitually employs a crude utilitarian morality rather than being totally amoral, and ethical considerations have continued to play an ever more prominent role in the thinking and actions of policy makers and politicians. In addition, citizens increasingly expect policies not only to be efficient and effective according to some purely economic or prudential calculation, but also to be equitable and just as well. As a consequence, both the public and private morality of politicians and public officials has come under ever greater scrutiny. The essays collected together in this volume explore the ethical issues raised by the process and substance of policy-making, and discuss whether it is reasonable to expect ethical standards in public affairs.--

Series Statement

The library of contemporary essays in political theory and public policy

Uniform Title

Library of contemporary essays in political theory and public policy.

Subject

Public administration > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I DIRTY HANDS -- 1. `Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1, pp. 160-80 / Michael Walzer -- 2. `Dirty Hands', British Journal of Political Science, 12, pp. 385-98 / Martin Hollis -- 3. `The Moral Importance of Dirty Hands', Journal of Value Inquiry, 26, pp. 239-50 / Anthony P. Cunningham -- pt. II VIOLENCE -- 4. `Liberal Democratic Torture', British Journal of Political Science, 36, pp. 1-16 / Steven Lukes -- 5. `Why is Violence Bad?', American Philosophical Quarterly, 41, pp. 169-80 / Vittorio Bufacchi -- 6. `Torture', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 7, pp. 124-43 / Henry Shue -- pt. III PROFESSIONAL ETHICS -- 7. `Professional Detachment: The Executioner of Paris', Harvard Law Review, 109, pp. 458-86 / Arthur Isak Applbaum -- 8. `The Philosophy of Codes of Ethics', Electrical Engineering, 74, pp. 916-18 / L.L. Fuller -- 9. `Moral Responsibility in Professional Ethics', New York University Law Review, 55, pp. 63-89 / Gerald J. Postema -- pt. IV CORRUPTION -- 10. `Defining Political Corruption', Political Studies, 45, pp. 436-62 / Mark Philp -- 11. `What Does Corruption Mean in a Democracy?', American Journal of Political Science, 48, pp. 328-43 / Mark E. Warren -- 12. `Political Corruption and Democracy', Connecticut Journal of International Law, 14, pp. 363-78 / Susan Rose-Ackerman -- 13. `Mediated Corruption: The Case of the Keating Five', American Political Science Review, 87, pp. 369-81 / Dennis F. Thompson -- pt. V PUBLIC REASON, LYING, SECRECY AND PRIVACY -- 14. `The Scope of Public Reason', Political Studies, 52, pp. 233-50 / Jonathan Quong -- 15. `The Right to Lie: Kant on Dealing with Evil', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 15, pp. 325-49 / Christine M. Korsgaard -- 16. `Democratic Secrecy', Political Science Quarterly, 114, pp. 181-93 / Dennis F. Thompson -- 17. `Can Public Figures have Private Lives?', Social Philosophy and Policy, 17, pp. 293-309 / Frederick Schauer -- pt. VI COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS AND MORAL ABSOLUTES -- 18. `Risk, Fear, Blame, Shame and the Regulation of Public Safety', Economics and Philosophy, 22, pp. 409-27 / Jonathan Wolff -- 19. `A Place for Cost-Benefit Analysis', Nous, 35, pp. 148-71 / David Schmidtz -- 20. `The Stupidity of the Cost-Benefit Standard', Journal of Legal Studies, 29, pp. 971-1003 / Henry S. Richardson.

ISBN

• 9780754628095 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 0754628094 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009938291

OCLC

567221525

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library