Administrative Ethics and Executive Decisions

Channeling and Containing Administrative Discretion

Chad B. Newswander

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781138280700
• eBook ISBN: 9781351986137
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

As first responders to public problems, administrators must survey situations, identify solutions, and occasionally make executive decisions that are binding upon the government as a whole. The ability for administrators to assert claims that orient the government in a particular direction is not only powerful, but it can also be problematic and even dangerous.

For administrators, the tension between moving in a spirited way, and remaining sensible, is a problem of how to exercise one's discretion, especially in the U.S. context, which demands that both be considered and actualized. In dealing with these competing expectations, Chad B. Newswander analyzes how administrators can incorporate executive, legislative, and judicial tendencies to help them handle the problem of discretion.

Expanding the thinking of the constitutional school of public administration thought, Administrative Ethics and Executive Decisions is a theoretically grounded and empirically rich study of how administrators incorporate a constitutional ethos to handle the problem of discretion.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Uncovering the Executive
• 2 Channeling and Containing Executive Decisions: Executive Character
• 3 Channeling and Containing Executive Decisions: Legislative Tendencies
• 4 Channeling and Containing Executive Decisions: Judicial Temperaments
• 5 Channeling and Containing Executive Decisions: Employing Levels of Scrutiny
• 6 Guardians of the Regime
• Index