ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the study design, and considers some important reasons why planners make different ethical choices. It also considers what planners as a whole think is ethical and unethical behavior, looking particularly at areas of consensus and disagreement, and at the fit between planners' attitudes about ethics and what they say they would actually do. The chapter focuses on the variables, such as role, political views, and other job related attitudes. It explores some of the implications of findings for planning theory, practice, and education. The chapter also discusses the effect of the tactics, and further considers the effect of substantive issues. For planners, ethics set the boundaries of acceptable behavior. In theory, a set of commonly held behavioral norms make up the body of professional ethics. Some, but by no means all, of these norms have been codified in the American Institute of Planners' Code of Professional Responsibility.
