By Vera Vogelsang-Coombs (auth.)

This e-book presents a security of democratic politics in American public provider and gives the political ethics of public carrier as a pragmatic and positive replacement to the cynical American view towards politics and public carrier. The author’s replacement is helping occupation public servants regain public belief via workout constitutionally founded ethical and political management that balances the regime values of liberty and equality in governing American society whereas contributing to the moral development of the country. She identifies 3 specified management varieties of political ethics, allowing occupation public servants to reconcile their own loyalties, morality, and consciences with the private and non-private morality of yankee society and their constitutional responsibilities to safe the democratic freedoms of american citizens. spotting occupation public servants’ ethical and institutional struggles, the ebook proposes a rigorous management improvement application to acclimate contributors to place of work mental, ethical, and political demanding situations. The view provided this is that occupation public servants needs to be part of, instead of remoted from, American politics to be potent at the job.

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Under the politics of freedom, Americans have the choice of pursuing or abandoning violence to resolve their inevitable conflicts over different conceptions of human freedom. The founders believed that Americans would coexist peacefully because their constitutional system provides a method of cooperation and competition to facilitate non-violent political change in American government and society. 61 If citizens perceive governmental actions as universally just or feel they can achieve justice through the flexible adaptation of government, then American society maintains law and order.

Morality functions at the individual level to define a person’s public and private way of life. 39 Morality gives meaning to the deeply felt convictions that people have about how to conduct their lives within pluralist American society and how they should behave as decent (civilized) humans. In practice, the ethical conduct of public servants links the private and public morality of pluralist American society and the world of American politics through their substantive political choices. As discussed earlier, the constitutionally centered approach to democratic public service uses the regime values and the ethical narrative to guide the practices of career public servants.

Galston, “Realism in Political Theory,” European Journal of Political Theory 9, no. 4 (2010): 385.  Rohr, To Run a Constitution (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1986), 259.  Rohr, Ethics for Bureaucrats: An Essay on Law and Values, 2nd ed. (New York, NY: Marcel Dekker, 1989). 57 Spicer, In Defense of Politics, 49. 58 Isaiah Berlin, Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1969), 169. 28 THE POLITICAL ETHICS OF PUBLIC SERVICE substantive political choices, career public servants confront two of the great political issues mentioned earlier: first, the coverage of citizenship— which shapes different interpretations of political freedom—and, second, the role of government in shaping the USA as a politically free society.

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