The World of Public Administration: An Ethical Perspective I. Ethics in Public Administration: An Overview In the realm of public administration, what is legal is not necessarily ethical. Whether we like it or not, public administrators always work within some kind of legal framework, and this legal framework may not necessarily fall under what we perceive as ethical. Ethics, according to Nigro and Nigro, are statements, written or oral, that prescribe or proscribe certain behaviors under specified conditions. Furthermore, values, according to Redfield, are conceptions, explicit or i...
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