Empowering Public Administrators

Amanda M. Olejarski teaches public administration courses at the University of Central Florida. She serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Public Integrity. Her research has been published in the top public administration journals, and she is the author of several books on ethical decision-making including Ethics for Contemporary Bureaucrats (Routledge, 2020). Sue M. Neal is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Arkansas State University, USA. She is the Cofounder of the Veterinary Care Accessibility Project, a research nonprofit aimed at improving animal welfare in the United States and beyond. She was employed for over two decades as an executive director in the nonprofit sector and has done extensive research consulting for a number of national animal welfare organizations. Her research interests include ethics in the public sector and animal welfare, and her work has appeared in a number of journals. Dr. Neal serves as the Managing Editor of the journal Public Integrity.

Introduction Part I: Ontology and Epistemology 1. Ethics and Public Service Values: Ontological and Epistemic Frameworks for Study and Practice 2. Autonomy as Public Service 3. Call the Budget Police! How the Public Service Values of Ontology and Epistemology can Support Public Administrators in a Gray Budgeting Environment 4. The ethical voids of the principal agency and stewardship approach Part II: The Public Interest 5. How Public Administrators Empower Themselves 6. Political Polarization, Transcendent Values, and the Urgency of Moral Leadership Among Campus Leaders as Public Administrators 7. The Ethics of Public Employee Disparaging Private Social Media Use, Erosion of Trust and the Advancement of the Public Interest Part III: Bureaucracy in a Democracy 8. Principle Organizational Dissent and Public Service 9. The Influence of Public Service Values on Implementation and Performance: Evidence from the Housing Policy 10. The Institutionalization of Ethics policies and the management of a growing ethics bureaucracy Part IV: Balancing Politics and Administration 11. Balancing Politics and Administration: Dangers of Administrative Discretion 12. Ethical Codes, the Politics-Administration Dichotomy, and Public Financial Managers 13. Discretionary ethics and governing public affairs in jails and prisons: Upholding constitutional rights to health and safety. Part V: The Hollowing of Government 14. Mending the Fragile Credibility of a Hollow State with Storytelling 15. Gaming the System: Ethical Constraints in Implementing Co-production 16. Sports as Mirrors: Athletes and Agenda Setting in a Hollowed-Out State Part VI: Transparency in Reporting 17. Public Service Values and Financial Reporting in U.S. Local Governments: Reconciling Transparency in External Financial Reporting with Political Expectations 18. Transparency in Preserving and Administering Sites of Collective Memory 19. New Public Management Reforms, Ethics Training Programs and Ethical Conduct of Public Servants in Tanzania Conclusion