Motivating Ministers to Morality

Ian Holland, Jenny Fleming

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351784955
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Teologia e religione
• Subtopic: Religione

This title was first published in 2002: Political ethics is a rapidly growing field in disciplines such as political science, philosophy, applied ethics and public policy and it has become a major topic in current affairs' reporting of politics. This book discusses the most prominent subjects - and occasional victims - of the ethics debate: government ministers. It is the first major work to discuss institutional reforms around the world that target ministerial morality and asks: how are these reforms influencing the motivation and conduct of the most powerful of our politicians? The book provides unique insights into ministerial behaviour and the changing role of institutions in influencing the ethics of the executive, with analyses from around the world. Contributors to the volume include international high-profile players in political ethics. They include Lord Nolan, the first Chairman of Britain's Joint Parliamentary Committee on Standards in Public Life; Professor Robert J. Jackson, a leading Canadian political scientist instrumental in establishing the Canadian Office of the Ethics Counsellor; and Associate Professor Noel Preston, the leading commentator on ethics in Australian politics, who has been involved in developing a number of its ethical regimes.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• PART I: MINISTERIAL ETHICS— THE PROBLEM AND THE THEORY
• PART II: LESSONS FROM WESTMINSTER: CODES AND CONVENTIONS
• PART III: WALKING THE TIGHTROPE: SERVING THE PARTY
• PART IV: ETHICAL VIGILANCE: WATCHDOGS AND GUARD DOGS
• PART V: MOTIVATING MINISTERIAL BEHAVIOUR
• Bibliography
• Index