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Research On Public Administrators' Virtue

Posted on:2005-10-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q L DingFull Text:PDF
GTID:2156360152968715Subject:Marxist philosophy
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The virtue, belonging to public administrators, is regarded as one of the important issue of public administrative ethics. It means the gross of quality or morality of public administrators, acquiring the inner benefit or value meaning from public administrative activities.This kind of quality or morality is indispensable for public administrators being engaged in public administrative affairs. It has the significant meaning to them managing social business morally or not.This dissertation is divided into five parts:The first part, to put forward the theoretical background that the question produces, to analyze two kinds of supposition about public administrators' humanity. Traditional public administration, borrowing political science viewpoint, has made the evil supposition on public administrators' human nature. While Public Choice Theory considers that public administrators are always in a state of being "a economic man" and in pursuit of the ultimate result of their personal benefit or avail, as they do in private field.The two public administrative theories: restriction theory and compatible incentive theory, based on these two humanity suppositions, results in a great deal of predicament in public administrative practice, which is opposite to the original intention of human nature supposition. The reason lies in humanity supposition only concerning one part of public administrative personnel's humanity, ignoring morality and value factors in it on the other hand. The second part, to sort out systematically the realistic reasons of public administrators' virtue issue standing out. This text analyzes the reasons from four respects: opportunism action, separation of public interest and individual interest, in face of ethics conflict and extending of autonomous judgment.The third part, primarily to study how to hold the virtue on definition, analysis of the public administrative personnel the virtue's meaning, characteristic, and its function or effect to public administration as well.The fourth part, to investigate the concrete content of public administrators'virtue. It includes six parts: public interest paramountcy, carefully-used power, reasonable obedience, reflective balance, responsibility-standard and self-control.The fifth part, it will be mentioned that the right way and measures form virtue for the public administrators. It is constituted of two parts: social construction and individual self-figure.As far as society is concerned, it should do things as follow: constructing an atmosphere of morality, strengthening public administrative ethics education, making legalization of morality and systemization of ethics, constituting morality mechanism of dedication and respond. On the other hand, public administrators must come through a process from rational cognition to affectional self-identity, then natural behavior for carring out their virtue.
Keywords/Search Tags:public administration, public administrator, public administrative ethics, virtue
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