Reform, Ethics And Leadership In Public Service: A Festschrift in Honour of Richard A. Chapman by Michael Hunt (Editor), Barry O'Toole (Editor)

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The public service in the United Kingdom and throughout the anglophone world has been subject to more than fifteen years of constant reform. These reforms have raised numerous questions about the role of the public service in western political systems. The most important of these might be termed ethical questions essentially they concern the relationships between citizens and their governments and the roles and duties of politicians and officials in the aims, organization and management of government. These questions raise further issues about leadership (both political and administrative) and about the type of people who exercise leadership in our political and administrative system.

The three elements of this book, Reform; Ethics; and Leadership, have traditionally been treated separately in the literature of the administrative sciences. The particular value of this book is that it recognizes their inter-relationships and, through contributions from scholars in Britain and overseas, provides a contemporary perspective as well as drawing the issues together in case volume.

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Paying respect to a person regarded by many as the doyen of the study of public administration in Britain, this volume collects the work of Chapman's friends and colleagues on the themes of reform, ethics, and leadership in public service, primarily focusing on Britain but also addressing some of these issues in the US. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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