Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction to value and virtue in public administration -- Governance and values in contemporary public service / Charles Garofalo -- Public virtue approaches / Berry Tholen -- Ethics and globalization in historical perspective: the relevance of socrates in our days / Demetrios Argyriades -- The cultural-economic perspective on values and virtues / Eelke de Jong -- The social psychology perspective on values and virtues / Iwona Sobis & Michiel S. de Vries -- The institutional perspective on values and virtues / Elinor Ostrom & Vincent Ostrom -- Public administration as a menetype b: re-discovering trichotomies / Bruce Cutting & Alexander Kouzmin -- Contemporary trends and dilemmas of administrative ethics in the developing world -- / M. Shamul Haque -- The value profile of civil servants in new European democracies through the lens of embedded ethics / Jolanta Palidauskaite -- The evil and its cure: clientelism, corruption and their institutional remedies in Latin America / Christina W. Andrews -- Perils and prospects in four African countries / Moses Sindane -- Public sector value and virtue and the OECD / Cynthia E. Lynch & Thomas D. Lynch.