Administrative Ethics: The Path to Realizing Administrative Responsibility--Fourth Edition

Author: Cooper (USA), translated by Zhang Xiujin
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Publish Date: 2001-11-01
Features: The book is highly readable and engaging due to its numerous vivid case studies. The author analyzes abstract and complex ethical theories through real-life case analyses, many of which stem from actual events, including some well-known major historical events such as the Watergate scandal. All of this undoubtedly helps readers gain a more vivid understanding of abstract ethical dilemmas. Since its first publication in 1982, "Administrative Ethics" has been widely welcomed by public administrators in the United States and has been recognized as the most widely used textbook in public administration by the American Society for Public Administration. This is the latest fourth edition, in which Professor Cooper has added new content to the original edition and proposed a new "design approach" to administrative ethics. This approach addresses how administrative personnel and agencies should take responsible administrative actions when facing internal and external pressures. It also describes how public organizations can confront new challenges and solve emerging problems in the postmodern era, as well as the relationship between administrative ethics theory and the emerging principal-agent theory.