ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a critical review of one specific approach to handling the issue of ethics for career civil servants. It begins by analyzing the implications of the three words "professional", "bureaucrats", and "education". The chapter examines two approaches to ethics based on the "social equity" literature associated with the "new public administration". The ethics has two parts: the "low road" that emphasizes adherence to formal rules and the "high road" that stresses social equity. Humanistic psychology can provide a normative foundation for many of the values salient in both social equity and the "new public administration" literature. Political philosophy is undoubtedly capable of offering such principles, but in the context of today's educational climate, will "realistic" curriculum demands allow political philosophy to reveal its treasures? The explanation and justification can be presented most coherently by recalling that the term "regime values" describes a method that addresses the ethical dimensions of professional education for bureaucrats.
