Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Richard K. Ghere -- State of the art of empirical research on ethics and integrity in governance / Donald C. Menzel -- Organization designs that support ethical behavior -- Developing a behavioral model for ethics decision making in organizations : conceptual and empirical research / Dennis P. Wittmer -- Update on moral reasoning research and theory in public administration : a neo- -- Kohlbergian perspective / Laura Lee Swisher, Ann-Marie Rizzo, and Marsha A. Marley -- Power and ethics : the communal language of effective leadership / Carole L. Jurkiewicz -- Public service ethics and administrative evil : prospects and problems / Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour -- Accountability through thick and thin : making assessments and making cases / Melvin Dubnick and Ciar N. O'Kelly -- Market forces that compromise administrative ethics -- Public ethics and the new managerialism : an axiomatic theory / H. George Frederickson -- Ensuring accountability in public services : the dilemma of measuring moral and -- Ethical performance / Lisa Dicke and Petina Boonyarak -- Cowboys and the new public management : political corruption as a harbinger -- Peter deleon -- Public ethics, legal accountability, and the new governance / Laura S. Jensen and Sheila S. Kennedy -- Unintended outcomes of anticorruption reforms -- The cure a public disease : the foibles and future of corruption control / Frank Anechiarico -- In the search of virtue : why ethics policies spawn unintended consequences / Kathryn G. Denhardt and Stuart C. Gilman -- Administrative ethics in global perspective -- An anatomy of official corruption / Gerald E. Caiden -- Public service ethics in a transnational world / Diane E. Yoder and Terry L. Cooper -- Globalization and public service ethics : some directions for inquiry / Richard K. Ghere -- Conclusion : ethics and public management-answers and questions / Richard K. Ghere.