Public Policy: Why ethics matters

by Jonathan Boston

Ethics is a vigorously contested field. There are many competing moral frameworks, and different views about how normative considerations should inform the art and craft of governmental policy making. What is not in dispute, however, is that ethics matters. The ethical framework adopted by policy analysts and decision makers not only shapes how policy problems are defined, framed and analysed, but also influences which ethical principles and values...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1921666730
• ISBN13: 9781921666735
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.8"