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‘Bureaucratic morality’ includes two terms: ‘bureaucrat’, which means a public official who is appointed, promoted, and retired or removed from the service through a merit system. Thus elected politicians and political appointees do not belong to this category. ‘Morality’ (or values) includes wider connotations than the term ‘ethics’, which has the narrower concern usually associated with unethical activities and codes of conduct. Morality includes both the positive and the negative values or attributes of holding a public office.
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O.P. Dwivedi ‘Moral Dimensions of Statecraft: A Plea for an Administrative Theology’, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1987, p. 709.
O. P. Dwivedi, ‘On Holding Public Servants Accountable’, in O.P. Dwivedi (ed.), The Administrative State in Canada ( Toronto: University of Toronto, 1982 ) p. 173.
Joseph G. Jabbra and Nancy W. Jabbra, ‘Public Service Ethics in the Third World: A Comparative Perspective’, in W.D.K. Kernaghan and O.P. Dwivedi (eds), Ethics in the Public Service ( Brussels: International Institute of Administrative Sciences, 1983 ) p. 40.
See Gerald E. Caiden, ‘Ethics in the Public Service: Codification Misses the Real Target’, Public Personnel Management, Vol. 10, 1981, pp. 146–52.
See O.P. Dwivedi, ‘Ethics and Administrative Responsibility’, Indian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 29, 1983, pp. 504–17.
See O.P. Dwivedi, ‘Conclusion: A Comparative Analysis of Ethics, Public Policy, and the Public Service’, in James S. Bowman and Frederick A. Elliston (eds), Ethics, Government and Public Policy: A Reference Guide ( New York: Greenwood Press, 1988 ) p. 318.
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Dwivedi, O.P. (1994). Bureaucratic Morality, Corruption and Accountability. In: Development Administration. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374188_3
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