Richard K Ghere
Biographic Data
| ID | 4127668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard K Ghere |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard K |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghere |
| SIGNATURE | GHERE R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dayton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Public Moralities, Citizen Voices, and Disparate Fears
This article examines the contours of “the public’s morality(ies)”, either as an aggregate of individuals’ public hopes and fears or (in the plural) as particular mixes of hopes and fears stemming from individual (or coalitional) moral convictions. Our theoretical understanding of one aggregate “public morality” relies upon Derek Edyvane’s presentation of a civic virtue premised upon an austerity whereby citizens value a collective sense of prote…
Uncivil Agreement
In Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (2018), political scientist Lilliana Mason characterizes the current U.S. political landscape as two enclaves each fixed upon a preoccupation
Introduction
This volume of Public Integrity presents a symposium of five articles related to human rights that (a) introduce readers to the general origin and nature of human rights conversation, (b) character
Administrative Narratives, Human Rights, and Public Ethics
This inquiry focuses specifically on administrative (local official) narratives that speak to contentious issue contexts of social conflict. Specifically, it draws upon a theoretical connection between hermeneutics and the sociology of knowledge to interpret narrative passages of local officials and others related to a contentious public action—the Detroit Water and Sewerage District’s stepped-up water-discontinuation efforts (2014 and 2015) that…
Ethics in Public Management
The Case for “Interpretive Jiggery-Pokery” in Public Ethics Research
Antonin Scalia’s biting dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court case King v. Burwell (2015), upholding federal subsidies for affordable healthcare, brings to mind a television entertainer who captivated
Thin vs. Thick Morality Ethics and Gender in International Development Programs
This study examines the ethical dimensions of gender-focused international development initiatives undertaken by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and similar agencies. Specifically, it presents three case studies that depict how specific development initiatives in, respectively, India, Tanzania, and Senegal address gender disparities and power relationships. These case studies support the general conclusion that ethically committed developmen…
Ethics in Public Management
The first edition of this work, published in 1993, refuted the notion that administrative ethics could not be studied empirically. In this second edition, Frederickson (public administration, University of Kansas) and Ghere (political science, University of Dayton) expand their scope to include both the managerial and individual/moral dimensions of ethical behavior, and add a new section on administrative ethics and globalization. Other sections …
Network Legitimacy and Accountability in a Developmental Perspective
Public networks typically function beyond the lines of the hierarchical authorities that hold bureaucracies accountable, as is shown here in the case of a business-dominant network that exhibited ethically questionable behaviors at the expense of its community credibility. Public networks can build external legitimacy by engaging in critical organization learning processes, much the way some nongovernmental organizations respond to a diversity of…
Watching the Borders of Administrative Evil
This article assesses the utility of Adams and Balfour’s treatment of administrative evil ( Unmasking Administrative Evil) for diagnosing what Perrow calls the “difficult and messy” cases in mainstream public management. It reexamines the human dimension and public policy context as boundaries of administrative evil, articulating four alternative explanations of evil in public agency settings, one of which aligns closely with Adams and Balfour’s …
Information Technology's Potential to Improve Urban Neighborhoods
(2001). Information Technology's Potential to Improve Urban Neighborhoods: Some Citizen Planning Dilemmas. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 39-60
Probing the Strategic Intricacies of Public–Private Partnership
This article pursues a detailed understanding of strategic considerations in large‐scale partnership negotiations that have implications for public service over the long term. Specifically, this study focuses upon the strategic context of negotiation between governmental entities and private firms as fundamental to partnership viability. Metaphorical comparison between U.S. patent policy (especially as it pertains to cutting‐edge biotechnical and…
Aligning the Ethics of Public-Private Partnership
This article surveys the ethical terrain of public-private partnerships that can affect public policy at the local level. Amidst the resonance of the current appeal to reinvent government, there are indications that ethics may be an afterthought among arguments that local jurisdictions should become more enterprising and catalytic. A case study included herein invites ethical scrutiny of a partnership between a county government and a local chamb…
Aligning the Ethics of Public-Private Partnership
This article surveys the ethical terrain of public-private partnerships that can affect public policy at the local level. Amidst the resonance of the current appeal to reinvent government, there are indications that ethics may be an afterthought among arguments that local jurisdictions should become more enterprising and catalytic. A case study included herein invites ethical scrutiny of a partnership between a county government and a local chamb…
Network Legitimacy and Accountability in a Developmental Perspective
Public networks typically function beyond the lines of the hierarchical authorities that hold bureaucracies accountable, as is shown here in the case of a business-dominant network that exhibited ethically questionable behaviors at the expense of its community credibility. Public networks can build external legitimacy by engaging in critical organization learning processes, much the way some nongovernmental organizations respond to a diversity of…
Watching the Borders of Administrative Evil
This article assesses the utility of Adams and Balfour’s treatment of administrative evil ( Unmasking Administrative Evil) for diagnosing what Perrow calls the “difficult and messy” cases in mainstream public management. It reexamines the human dimension and public policy context as boundaries of administrative evil, articulating four alternative explanations of evil in public agency settings, one of which aligns closely with Adams and Balfour’s …
Administrative Narratives, Human Rights, and Public Ethics
This inquiry focuses specifically on administrative (local official) narratives that speak to contentious issue contexts of social conflict. Specifically, it draws upon a theoretical connection between hermeneutics and the sociology of knowledge to interpret narrative passages of local officials and others related to a contentious public action—the Detroit Water and Sewerage District’s stepped-up water-discontinuation efforts (2014 and 2015) that…
Uncivil Agreement
In Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (2018), political scientist Lilliana Mason characterizes the current U.S. political landscape as two enclaves each fixed upon a preoccupation
Thin vs. Thick Morality Ethics and Gender in International Development Programs
This study examines the ethical dimensions of gender-focused international development initiatives undertaken by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and similar agencies. Specifically, it presents three case studies that depict how specific development initiatives in, respectively, India, Tanzania, and Senegal address gender disparities and power relationships. These case studies support the general conclusion that ethically committed developmen…
Aligning the Ethics of Public-Private Partnership
This article surveys the ethical terrain of public-private partnerships that can affect public policy at the local level. Amidst the resonance of the current appeal to reinvent government, there are indications that ethics may be an afterthought among arguments that local jurisdictions should become more enterprising and catalytic. A case study included herein invites ethical scrutiny of a partnership between a county government and a local chamb…
Information Technology's Potential to Improve Urban Neighborhoods
(2001). Information Technology's Potential to Improve Urban Neighborhoods: Some Citizen Planning Dilemmas. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 39-60
Probing the Strategic Intricacies of Public–Private Partnership
This article pursues a detailed understanding of strategic considerations in large‐scale partnership negotiations that have implications for public service over the long term. Specifically, this study focuses upon the strategic context of negotiation between governmental entities and private firms as fundamental to partnership viability. Metaphorical comparison between U.S. patent policy (especially as it pertains to cutting‐edge biotechnical and…
Watching the Borders of Administrative Evil
This article assesses the utility of Adams and Balfour’s treatment of administrative evil ( Unmasking Administrative Evil) for diagnosing what Perrow calls the “difficult and messy” cases in mainstream public management. It reexamines the human dimension and public policy context as boundaries of administrative evil, articulating four alternative explanations of evil in public agency settings, one of which aligns closely with Adams and Balfour’s …
Network Legitimacy and Accountability in a Developmental Perspective
Public networks typically function beyond the lines of the hierarchical authorities that hold bureaucracies accountable, as is shown here in the case of a business-dominant network that exhibited ethically questionable behaviors at the expense of its community credibility. Public networks can build external legitimacy by engaging in critical organization learning processes, much the way some nongovernmental organizations respond to a diversity of…
Ethics in Public Management
The first edition of this work, published in 1993, refuted the notion that administrative ethics could not be studied empirically. In this second edition, Frederickson (public administration, University of Kansas) and Ghere (political science, University of Dayton) expand their scope to include both the managerial and individual/moral dimensions of ethical behavior, and add a new section on administrative ethics and globalization. Other sections …
Thin vs. Thick Morality Ethics and Gender in International Development Programs
This study examines the ethical dimensions of gender-focused international development initiatives undertaken by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and similar agencies. Specifically, it presents three case studies that depict how specific development initiatives in, respectively, India, Tanzania, and Senegal address gender disparities and power relationships. These case studies support the general conclusion that ethically committed developmen…
Ethics in Public Management
The Case for “Interpretive Jiggery-Pokery” in Public Ethics Research
Antonin Scalia’s biting dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court case King v. Burwell (2015), upholding federal subsidies for affordable healthcare, brings to mind a television entertainer who captivated
Introduction
This volume of Public Integrity presents a symposium of five articles related to human rights that (a) introduce readers to the general origin and nature of human rights conversation, (b) character
Administrative Narratives, Human Rights, and Public Ethics
This inquiry focuses specifically on administrative (local official) narratives that speak to contentious issue contexts of social conflict. Specifically, it draws upon a theoretical connection between hermeneutics and the sociology of knowledge to interpret narrative passages of local officials and others related to a contentious public action—the Detroit Water and Sewerage District’s stepped-up water-discontinuation efforts (2014 and 2015) that…
Uncivil Agreement
In Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (2018), political scientist Lilliana Mason characterizes the current U.S. political landscape as two enclaves each fixed upon a preoccupation
Public Moralities, Citizen Voices, and Disparate Fears
This article examines the contours of “the public’s morality(ies)”, either as an aggregate of individuals’ public hopes and fears or (in the plural) as particular mixes of hopes and fears stemming from individual (or coalitional) moral convictions. Our theoretical understanding of one aggregate “public morality” relies upon Derek Edyvane’s presentation of a civic virtue premised upon an austerity whereby citizens value a collective sense of prote…
Political science (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)