Year: 2010
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Much of the work of public officials -elected or appointed -involves choices amongst values; indeed, it is this characteristic of their role in a liberal democracy that often makes their decisions contestable, debateable and requiring public justification.Therefore, nothing is more dangerous to the well-being of the body politic than a public official who is technically competent or strategically astute but ethically illiterate or unfit.(Preston 1994, p. 1).
Source: ANU Press eBooks
Author: David Bromell
Language: English
Subfield: Public Administration
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2883287131