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Amongst the founding principles of public administration is the idea that administrators are implementers of policy; setting of policy agendas and the construct of legal authority for public programs are the domain of the political sphere. The “good” of public administration has historically resided in notions of administrators comprising a core of expertise within the public sector, engaged in the enhancements of efficiency and effectiveness in achievement of purposes set before it, broadly defined as the public interest. The public interest is variously considered to be a range of ideas from defending basic human rights to more pluralist views to “outcomes best serving the long-run survival and well-being of a social collective construed as a public” (Bozeman, in Lawton et al. 2013, p. 35). In pursuing programs to serve the public interest, administrators concern...
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Atkinson, C.L. (2016). Compliance Versus Ethical Capacity. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2251-1
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