level of ethics discussing the basic sense of right and wrong
What is Personal Morality?
100
The term has been popularized to cover the commission of any action considered a demeaning of the responsibilities of the office by the holder of that office.
What is Scandal?
100
the extent to which one must answer to higher authority for one's actions in society at large or within one's particular organization position
What is Accountability?
100
all recorded judicial and administrative agency decisions
What is Case Law?
100
the tendency of public officials to commit an act generally considered to be a wrong to further the common good
What is Dirty Hands Dilemma?
200
level of ethics in which public administrators increasingly recognize a set of professional norms and rules that obligate them to act in a certain way.
What is professional ethics?
200
The scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
What is Watergate?
200
the core of honor
What is Integrity?
200
an executive's granting of a release from the legal consequences of a criminal act
What is Pardon?
200
Is often appealed to by those who wish to attack an existing law or practice that courts or legislators are unlikely or unwilling to change.
What is higher law?
300
Has an environment or culture that includes both formal and informal rules.
What is organizational ethics?
300
The giving or offering of anything of value with intent to unlawfully influence an official in the discharge of duties.
What is Bribery?
300
During the sinking of the Titantic, some of the wealthiest men went to their deaths to save women and children. This is an example of what?
What is Honorable Behavior?
300
decided on the basis of individual judgments that do not commonly meet understood rules of procedure an hence may not appear justifiable to those seeking to explain them to others or to replicate them in similar circumstances
What is Arbitrary?
300
the total means by which the U.S. Congress monitors the activities of executive branch agencies to determine if the laws are being faithfully executed
What is Congressional Oversight?
400
level of ethics that obliges members of a given society to act in ways that both protect individuals and further the progress of the group as a whole.
What is social ethics?
400
Many joked that Nixon would be forced out of office after this comedian started telling jokes on The Tonight Show
Who is Johnny Carson?
400
the internalized moral compass by which individuals ascertain correct behavior in public and private life
What is Honor?
400
an excessive zeal in form of obsessive attention to minor details that so often leads to incompetence in modern organizations
What is Obsessive Accountability?
400
The informant in the Watergate scandal known as "Deep Throat"
What is Mark Felt?
500
This event arose in the fall of 1986, when it was revealed that the Reagan administration had secretly sold arms to another government at higher than normal prices.
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
500
An untruth so great or so audacious that it is bound to have an effect on public opinion
What is Big Lie?
500
In the classic film, "Rebel without a Cause", James Dean had to accept the challenge duel because he was called..
What is Chicken?
500
shifts the blame for the situation if it sours
What is Avoiding Accountability?
500
who is the preeminent Public Administration Ethicist