Public Administration. Хрестоматия для студентов-магистров направления подготовки 38.04.02 «Менеджмент», профиля «Управление имущественным комплексом»

Politics and ethics in public administration

Public administrators act independently of legislators and most elected officials. This ensures that those on election boards can operate independently of political influence. This is also true of law enforcement.

Unfortunately, enforcing ethical violations can lead to consequences for the public administrator. While an officer can enforce a law against an elected official, the elected official can place pressure on others to force the officer to work a night shift or decrease the department.

Rohr would argue that politics and administration are not separate, but are present at the same time when a public administrator makes decisions. He states that the problem with public administrators “is not that bureaucrats are excessively involved in policy formulation11 but that they are involved at all.

This is a problem for a democratic society because to influence public policy as a public official is to govern”. In other words, those officials who are influencing decisions are taking on the role of those elected by the public without a responsibility of having to answer to the public for decisions made.

However, because there can be large political obstacles, it can be difficult for an administrator to overcome ethical concerns within an organization.

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Sometimes, the culture of an organization is unethical, at which time, it would be useless to bring up ethical concerns within the organization.

In the public sector and nonprofits, when this is the case, individuals will often attempt to bring outside scrutiny on to the organization. This is typically done by leaking the ethical concerns to the general media. Such an act is known as whistleblowing.

(From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sector_ethics)

Vocabulary

public administrator – государственный служащий

2elected official – выборное лицо election board – избирательная комиссия law enforcement – применение закона

ethical violations – нарушение этических норм

6consequences – последствия officer – служащий

night shift – ночная смена

separate – обособленный, автономный excessively – чересчур, чрезмерно policy formulation – выработка политики

public policy – государственная политика to take on the role – брать на себя роль obstacle – препятствие

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to overcome ethical concerns – разрешить этические проблемы at which time – при этом nonprofit – некоммерческая организация

to bring outside scrutiny on – привлечь внимание внешнего мира

whistleblowing – обращение в компетентные органы о нарушении закона; гражданская активность, связанная с разоблачением противоправных действий

Answer the questions:

1.How should public administrators act?

2.What consequences can enforcing ethical violations lead to?

3.What problem with public administrators does Rohr state?

4.What obstacles can prevent an administrator from overcoming ethical concerns within an organization?

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