Question 1. What does it mean to take a "design approach" to ethical decision making?
Question 2. What is the difference between a descriptive and a prescriptive ethical decision-making model?
Question 3. What is the difference between absolutism and relativist approaches to ethics?
Question 4. What are conflicts of authority?
Question 5. What are role conflicts?
Question 6. Explain the difference between internal and external controls.
Question 7. Describe the four historical ethical traditions and how they differ.
Question 8. Please explain the concept of objective responsibility, including forms of objective responsibility. In your own words, please explain the concept of subjective responsibility, including the meanings of values, beliefs, and attitudes. Give examples of both.
Question 9.
a). Cooper identifies three major implications of modernization for public administration. Using the information that you learned in the readings and in-class lectures, how have these changes impacted ethical decision-making in public administration? Moreover, what are common ethical dilemmas that have arisen in public administration?
b). Given these common ethical dilemmas, if you had to draft a unified code of ethics for all public administrators, what do you think would be the two most important tenets? Why?