Ethics and administrative discretion in a unified administration : a burken perspective
By: HAQUE, Akhlaque
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, January 2004Administration & Society 35, 6, p. 701-716Abstract: Lack of public trust and confidence in government can have a siginificant impact on the future of the public service profession. this study brings to the forefront a normative discussion of administrative behavior and the building of trust as perceived from the works of the 18th-century political philosopher Edmund Burke. By exploring Burke´s concept of unified administration, it can be argued that institutionalization of administrative traditions can provide practical guindance for judicial use of administrative discretion. The measurement of sucess, in large part, will depend on national principles, perr coordination, customs, and institutional commitment
Lack of public trust and confidence in government can have a siginificant impact on the future of the public service profession. this study brings to the forefront a normative discussion of administrative behavior and the building of trust as perceived from the works of the 18th-century political philosopher Edmund Burke. By exploring Burke´s concept of unified administration, it can be argued that institutionalization of administrative traditions can provide practical guindance for judicial use of administrative discretion. The measurement of sucess, in large part, will depend on national principles, perr coordination, customs, and institutional commitment
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