Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dobel, J. Patrick

Titel

Integrity in the Public Service

Ist Teil von

• Public administration review, 1990-05, Vol.50 (3), p.354-366

Ort / Verlag

Chicago, Ill: American Society for Public Administration

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article argues that public officials need a complex array of moral resources to exercise discretion in office. Three different realms are vital to defensible and successful discretion. These are commitments to regime accountability, personal responsibility, and prudence. No one realm of judgment provides all the resources needed to judge well in public service, and each alone has severe limits. The article uses the ideal of personal integrity as a presumption of moral responsibility to explain how individuals can and should hold all three types of commitments as public officials. Individuals of integrity should then iterate among the three realms in their judgments while using each to balance and strengthen the others. The article concludes by enumerating seven basic commitments where the three realms converge and reinforce each other.