ABSTRACT
CONTENTS 16.1 Stimulus of the Profi t Motive .............................................................................. 294 16.2 Ethics and the Public Interest ............................................................................. 295 16.3 Th e Double Standard .......................................................................................... 297 16.4 What Can Be Done about Ethical Performance .................................................. 299 16.5 Concluding Observations on Ethics .................................................................... 300 Notes ..............................................................................................................................301
Problems of ethical attitudes and behavior in public service are not easily divorced from the society and culture in which the bureaucracy exists. Th is was notoriously true in American history and especially evident during the latter decades of the twentieth century.
