Ethics in City Hall: Discussion and Analysis for Public Administration

Students need to be exposed to real life events that they will be confronted with as public managers. This book contains twenty-one in-depth case studies that describe and discuss actual events that presented ethical and other challenges in public management. Each case study is a true account of an event that took place in a village, town, township, or city with a population between 10,000 and 40,000 over the past 30 years. This text encourages the reader to analyze the situations and behaviors presented, then reflect on how to deal with the circumstances. it will assist instructors and students in applying principles of ethical behavior to actual ethical challenges faced by public administrators. This useful text also includes discussion questions and analyses to test students' knowledge and critical thinking. Now available as a bundle with  the Ethics Primer for Public Administrators in Government and Nonprofit Organizations  by James Svara!  the Ethics Primer for Public Administrators in Government and Nonprofit Organizations  introduces the reader To The fundamentals of administrative responsibility and ethics, explains why ethics are important to administrators in governmental and non-profit organizations, and identifies ways to link ethics and management in order to strengthen the ethical climate in a public organization. Order today and save!  

William N. Thompson, PhD, Professor of Public Administration, University of Nevada-Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada James E. Leidlein, MPA, City Manager, Harper Woods, Michigan, Adjunct Faculty-Political Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan