When the Two Collide: Nepotism, Loyalty and the Officer in the Middle
Every case study in this paper is finally the same case: a person who is both a private human being and a public officer, and a situation that will not let them be both.
Category: Private and Public Relationships
Chapter 4 — the ethics of public relationships, of private ones, and what happens when the two collide.
Ethics in Private Relationships: Where Partiality Is a Duty
In private life the impartiality that defines good administration would be a form of coldness. This is the one sphere where preference is not a failing but an obligation.
Public Relationships in Practice: Two Who Built Trust, One Case That Broke It
Principles are tested by cases. Two Indian careers show what public trust looks like when it is built deliberately; one scandal shows what happens to an entire sector when it is not.
Ethics in Public Relationships: The Six Principles
A public relationship has no affection in it, and that is precisely what makes it demanding. You owe a stranger the same standard you would give a friend, without the feeling that makes it easy.