what is the role of ethics in public policy?
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Public policy is based on what (according to the general consensus) is good for most people, or for the community. Public policy is the driving force behind many laws. For example, speed limits and drivers licenses are based on the public policy of keeping the roads moderately safe. The confidentiality (privilege) for speaking with an attorney or priest or counselor is based on the public policy goal of people seeking help for their problems.\n\nEthics are the codes and rules that apply to a particular profession. Attorneys have ethical codes, including confidentiallity. Priests have ethical codes, based upon the morals of their religion. Evem business tycoons have ethical codes (or so rumor has it).\n\nWhere something is generally accepted as an ethical duty, such as attorneys or priests keeping confidences, and where that ethical duty is generally useful, that translates into a public policy favoring that ethical duty, which in turn usually gets enacted as some type of law.
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definitely yes...think about ethics
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Policians, funded by large businesses and corporations expecting something in return for the campaign contributions they made.\n\nBetter start electing politicians who run on principles instead of promises they don't keep. I never vote anything other than Libertarian; not anymore.\n\n"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine\n\n"Murder! You know what this dirty, rotten politician war is... murder! You know it as well as I!" \nDialog from Howard Hughes' movie "Hell's Angels," as seen in Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator."
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Public administration is, broadly speaking, the study and implementation of policy. As a moral endeavor, public administration is linked to pursuing the public good through the creation of civil society and social justice. The adjective 'public' often denotes 'government', though it increasingly encompasses nonprofit organizations such as those of civil society or any entity and its management not specifically acting in self-interest. The term public administration sometimes is taken to refer narrowly to government bureaucracy.
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Read about it here:\n\nhttp://www.mises.org/rothbard/ethics/three.asp\n\nhttp://www.natreformassn.org/statesman/04/clsnatvsmod.html
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Corruption couldn't exist without values. Furthermore values are often concieved through corruption.  Unless people were utterly apathetic, which they are not, there wouldn't be values; corruption serves as a caution to reinforce values.  You may also add that humans are by and large not masachistic; that human nature would not allow corruption to direct a detramental  relationship between corruption and basic values of life.
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It always has.  The so-called 'personal lives' of public figures, particularly political figures, have always been of great public interest.  On the practical side, in countries with an aristocracy, personal choices can directly affect lineage, and the ability to pass on power/title through a family. \n\nIn the US, I agree that personal lives/choices should be private in most cases, but there are definite exceptions.\n\nIf a person is in the public eye BECAUSE they preach, dictate, counsel, or impose 'morality,' particularly if it is their job to do so,and they fail to meet their own standards, then their hypocrisy is of public interest, and should be exposed.\n\nIn the case of a minister/preacher/ priest, ostensibly a moral guide and guardian, and especially one who not only uses his moral authority to make money, but as a political platform from which to support political candidates, his moral failures are fair game.  \n\nThe same applies to private citizens.  If a person who makes political choices, or is an activist because of their sexual preferences, puts their personal choices into the public arena for the purpose of supporting or criticizing public leaders or figures, or legislation,  then they invite public scutiny.\n\nAlso, bear in mind, some people's sexual proclivites quite literally break laws.  Pedophilia and bestiality are illegal.  As are some acts between consenting adults, for that matter.  We won't get past the public turmoil over such things until our laws reflect and balance the realities of our society.\n\nI agree with you, in an ideal civilization, our sex lives would not be an issue, for the most part.  We wouldn't be hung up on religion, for one thing, and wouldn't be having to deal with people who felt they had the right to dictate sexual choices to others.
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Stakeholder management like all forms of management have ethical responsibilities.\n\nIn Stakeholder management the diverse range of stakeholders should have a better respresentation of the effects of a decision than a pure top down management.
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Ethics are not, by definition, unethical.  However, I suspect you mean something specific, such as a rule that the company you work for calls "ethics" which you question.  Try to tell us about it.
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It covers the analysis and employment of concepts such as right, wrong, good, evil, and responsibility.\nI got 5 things http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
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Interesting. \n\nCommon good? \n\nFear of retribution? \n\nSometimes policy is not in our realm to alter 'on the street', so to speak. Motivating one individual through the 'proper channels' perhaps is one method some authority figures may choose to aide someone whom policy has hindered. \n\nSometimes stopping someone from acting on a strong believe can in the end move that believe to higher channels, and in the end form stronger opinion for it. (i.e. violent acts do move public to abhore a group based solely on thier actions and not motivations).  A police officer (I use this example as per your question) may see this in a perspective the protestor does not, and while understanding the motivations behind the act, knows to stop the act itself will in fact further the resolution in favour of common good will and understanding and therefore possible policy changes become more likely. \n\nAnother example is a peaceful 'march' gains more public notoriety simply by having a police task force on hand. Whether they believe in the marchers motivations or not they are required to offer protection regardless of thier own beliefs. \n\nOne of the main stands in joining the police force, I believe is that they have to stand forward unbiased, and work to the society's set laws regardless of thier own belief system. Protect and serve regardless of whether they like or dislike the citizen. \n\nIt is in fact a double edged sword. \n\n..with early retirement common I'm sure, simply because of this moral requirement in a lot of cases.
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I would say that ethics are governed by those around you. In other words a general consensus is arrived at by the cumulative agreement of many...whereas morality is decided within the hearts of each of us...we alone decide what is and isn't morally right. Others may have an opinion but ultimately the final decision on morality is our own..~
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http://www.icitycondo.com/ethics.html
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The national interest actually lies in ethics.\nWhile it might not seem so in the short term, acting unethically will weaken us morally. It also prompts others to retaliate etc. like 9/11 which cannot be good for anyone.\n\nWe should lead morally and ethically even if in the short term it puts us at a slight disadvantage.
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Ethics is/are much like discipline.  In this case, doing what is best for the most people effected.  Sadly, while it can be taught, the difference between right and wrong, most would rather just sit down and turn on the TV, leaving the teaching solely to the teachers at school.\nWhat is right?  An age old question yet to be fully answered.  That's like asking what is "Fair."  It is subjective.  To make something "even" means that someone has to lose while the other gains.  Is THAT fair?
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Well, it seems that part of the morality of people could be attributed to what is beneficial to the species, what will keep us going.  Kind of  a pack mentality. But what is beneficial for the species isn't always conducive to harmonious sharing of the planet.  That's where what we teach our children comes in, how to live and function as a part of society.  Morals could be seen as the grease that helps us slide through life without any major snags, like prison, being ostracized, or a painful, lonely existence.
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Ethics (from the Ancient Greek "ethikos", meaning "arising from habit"), a major branch of philosophy, is the study of value or quality. It covers the analysis and employment of concepts such as right, wrong, good, evil, and responsibility. It is divided into three primary areas: meta-ethics (the study of what ethicality is), normative ethics (the study of what ethical truths there are and how they are known), and applied ethics (the study of the use of ethical knowledge).\n\nEthics is a general term for what is often described as the "science (study) of morality". In philosophy, ethical behavior is that which is "good" or "right." The Western tradition of ethics is sometimes called moral philosophy. This is one part of value theory (axiology) – the other part is aesthetics – one of the four major branches of philosophy, alongside metaphysics, epistemology, and logic. It is a study of right  and wrong, good and bad, moral judgment, etc.. It is a set of moral principles or values.