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The Challenge of Teaching Public Administration Ethics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2015

Dalton S. Lee
Dalton S. Lee*
Affiliation:
San Diego State University
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Extract

There seems to be little question that the ethical conduct of public servants is important to our form of government. However, transmitting this to students in public administration programs is quite another matter. Designing and teaching an ethics course is difficult, but not for the reasons that one might expect.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Political Science Teacher , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , Fall 1989 , pp. 1 - 3
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1989

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