POLS 3300 - Ethics and Public Life

Credits: 3 Class: 3 Lab: 0
Prerequisite(s): POLS 2305 and POLS 2306.
Examines case studies of ethical situations that arise both in the context of bureaucracy and for public managers. Topics include the limits of administrative discretion, regime values, corruption, bureaucratic accountability, social construction and harm as well as issues of divided loyalty and obligation, conscience and decision, integrity, compromise, and deception.