Ethics and Integrity of Governance: Perspectives Across Frontiers (New Horizons in Public Policy)

295 Pages·2008·0.9 MB·English

by  Leo W. J. C. Huberts

Ethics and Integrity of Governance
NEW HORIZONS IN PUBLIC POLICY
Series Editor:Wayne Parsons
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University of London,UK
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Ethics and Integrity of Governance
Perspectives Across Frontiers
Edited by Leo W.J.C.Huberts,Jeroen Maesschalck and Carole L.Jurkiewicz
Ethics and Integrity of
Governance
Perspectives Across Frontiers
Edited by
Leo W.J.C. Huberts
VU University Amsterdam,the Netherlands
Jeroen Maesschalck
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,Belgium
Carole L. Jurkiewicz
Louisiana State University,USA
with a foreword by John Rohr
NEW HORIZONS IN PUBLIC POLICY
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Ethics and integrity of governance :perspectives across frontiers / edited by
Leo W.J.C.Huberts,Jeroen Maesschalck,Carole L.Jurkiewicz ;with a
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Articles originally presented at the conference ‘Ethics and Integrity of
Governance:Perspectives Across Frontiers’held in Leuven in June 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Political ethics—United States—Congresses. 2. Political ethics—
Europe—Congresses. I.Huberts,L.W. II.Maesschalck,Jeroen,1975–
III.Jurkiewicz,Carole L.,1958–
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Contents
List of figures vii
List of tables viii
Contributors ix
Foreword xv
John A.Rohr
1. Introduction 1
Leo W.J.C.Huberts,Jeroen Maesschalck and Carole L.Jurkiewicz
PART I PUBLIC SERVICE ETHOS,VALUES AND
INTEGRITY
2. The evolution of the British public service ethos:a historical
institutional approach to explaining continuity and
change 7
Wouter Vandenabeele and Sylvia Horton
3. A revolution in organizational values:change and
recalibration 25
Carole L.Jurkiewicz and Robert A.Giacalone
4. Ethical norms in public service:a framework for analysis 44
Carol W.Lewis
5. Judging a public official’s integrity 65
Frédérique E.Six and Leo W.J.C.Huberts
PART II THE INTEGRITY,RATIONALITY AND
EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNANCE
6. Ethical leadership and administrative evil:the distorting
effects of technical rationality 85
Guy B.Adams and Danny L.Balfour
7. The Swiss Federal Administration in the context of
downsizing:public servants’perception about their work
environment and ethical issues 101
Yves Emery and Carole Wyser
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PART III ETHICS AND INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT
AND INSTRUMENTS
8. Ethical governance in local government in England:
a regulator’s view 123
Gillian Fawcett and Mark Wardman
9. A paradigmatic shift in ethics and integrity management
within the Dutch public sector? Beyond compliance – a
practitioner’s view 143
Alain Hoekstra,Alex Belling and Eli van der Heide
10. How to encourage ethical behaviour:the impact of police
leadership on police officers taking gratuities 159
Terry Lamboo,Karin Lasthuizen and Leo W.J.C.Huberts
PART IV ETHICS AND INTEGRITY AND THE
POLITICS OF GOVERNANCE
11. Removing employee protections:a ‘see no evil’approach
to civil service reform 181
James S.Bowman and Jonathan P.West
12. In defence of politicking:private,personal and public
interests 197
Robert P.Kaye
13. Perceptions of corruption as distrust? Cause and effect
in attitudes toward government 215
Steven Van de Walle
PART V CONCLUSION
14. Global perspectives on good governance policies
and research 239
Leo W.J.C.Huberts,Jeroen Maesschalck and
Carole L.Jurkiewicz
Index 265
Figures
4.1 Building the ethics landscape.(A) First set of variables
in ethics landscape;(B) second set of variables in ethics
landscape;(C) integrated view of ethics landscape;
(D) alternative integrated view of ethics landscape;
(E) comparative views of ethics landscape 52
5.1 Contrasting A’s judgment of B’s trustworthiness with
A’s moral judgment of B:(a) A’s judgment of B’s
trustworthiness and roles of both their norms;(b) A’s
moral judgment of B 71
5.2 A judging B’s integrity 73
8.1 Officers’perceptions of organizational commitment to
fighting fraud and corruption 134
8.2 Officers’perceptions of the impact this commitment is
having on reducing fraud and corruption 134
8.A1 The comprehensive performance assessment framework
from 2006 140
10.1 Research model effectiveness of integrity policies 164
10.2 The relationship between aspects of leadership and
employee integrity 174
13.1 Belgium in the Corruption Perceptions Index 217
13.2 Perceptions of corruption (TI) and justifiability of
accepting bribes (EVS) in the EU countries 219
13.3 Confidence in the civil service and perceptions of
corruption 231
14.1 Many related disciplines and aspects 252
14.2 Research orientation 253
14.3 Quality of governance criteria 256
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Tables
4.1 Landmark publications in the psychology of morality 48
5.1 Judging a public official’s integrity:who is judged,based
on what and by whom 76
8.1 Common standards and behaviours drawn from 21
public interest reports 129
8.2 Analysis of 38 governance local authority reviews –
common findings 131
8.3 Comparison of traditional audit skills against those
skills required to carry out an ethical audit 132
9.1 Compliance-based versus values-based approach 149
9.2 Explanations for the predominance of the compliance-
based approach 151
9.3 Moral reflection with regard to recruitment and selection 156
13.1 According to you,how many of your compatriots do
the following? Accepting a bribe in the course of their
duties? 218
13.2 Perceptions of unethical behaviour in the public sector
in Flanders 220
13.3 Perceived ethical treatment of citizens,correlations 221
13.4 Determinants of perceptions of ethical behavior:ordinal
regression models 222
13.5 The effects of political alienation on corruption,ordinal
regression models 226
13.6 Trust and corruption:correlations 229
14.1 CPI score of the 30 first countries that ratified the
UN Convention 247
14.2 Types of integrity violations related to police behavior 254
Box
5.1 Perspectives on integrity 66
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The contributors
Guy B.Adamsis Professor of Public Affairs in the Harry S Truman School
of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri-Columbia, in Columbia,
MO, USA. He is co-editor-in-chief of the American Review of Public
Administration. His research interests are in the areas of public adminis-
tration history and theory,public service ethics,and organization studies.
He has over 60 scholarly publications,including books,book chapters and
articles in the top national public administration journals,and received the
2007 Marshall E. Dimock Award for the best lead article in Public
Administration Review.He earned his doctorate in public administration in
1977 from The George Washington University in Washington,DC.
Danny L.Balfouris Professor of Public and Nonprofit Administration at
Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI, USA. His research
and teaching interests are in the areas of organizational theory, social
policy,public service ethics,and the Holocaust.He has more than 30 schol-
arly publications,including two editions of an award-winning book,book
chapters, and articles in the top national public administration journals,
and received the 2007 Marshall E. Dimock Award for best lead article in
Public Administration Review.He served as managing editor of the Journal
of Public Affairs Education from 1995–2000. He earned his PhD from
Florida State University in 1990.
Alex Bellingis a Coordinating Policy Adviser on ethics and integrity issues
for the Ministry ofthe Interior and Kingdom Relations in the Netherlands.
He is the former coordinator of the National Office for Promoting Ethics
and Integrity in the Public Sector. Belling previously worked for the
Ministry of Justice as an HR policy adviser.
James S. Bowman is Professor of Public Administration at the Askew
School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University, in
Tallahassee,FL,USA.He is editor-in-chief of Public Integrity,a journal
of the American Society for Public Administration.His primary research
areas are human resource management and professional ethics. He is
author of over 100 journal articles and book chapters,in addition to two
recent co-authored books. Bowman has also edited five anthologies. He
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