Preventing Unethical Conduct, and a District Under Water
Ten mechanisms an administration uses to make honesty ordinary rather than heroic — then a flooded district where every one of these values is tested at once.
Category: Ch 11 · Public Service Values
Public service values: the core values of administration, the ethical principles that operationalise them, their role as the foundation of law, democracy and markets, and the machinery that prevents unethical conduct.
Why Law, Democracy and Markets Rest on Moral Values
Courts, elections and markets are machinery. Strip out the shared moral values underneath them and each keeps running while producing the opposite of what it was built for.
Professionalism, Confidentiality and Conflict of Interest
A value tells you what to care about; a principle tells you what to do on Tuesday afternoon. This part covers the working rules that turn public service values into conduct.
The Values That Hold a Public Service Together
Integrity, accountability, transparency, impartiality, dedication, respect for law, empathy. Not decorations on an oath, but the conditions under which administration can claim legitimacy at all.