Overview

This important text integrates the study of ethics into public management training, highlighting Supreme Court opinions on three specific constitutional values—equality, freedom, and property—focusing on the pedagogical aspects of law and posing challenging questions to help readers apply theories to concrete situations.

It includes a case index for further research. Topics of specific interest include abortion, affirmative action, bureaucratic bashing, civil disobedience, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, the Iran-Contra scandal, moral absolutism, privileged communications, religious fundamentalism, and whistle blowing.

The Midwest Review of Public Administration lauds it as "…a unique teaching tool."