PPAL 6120 Ethics, Privacy and Access to Information

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PPAL 6120Ethics, Privacy and Access to
Information

• March 10, 2009
• Ian Greene

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Ethics in the public service, ethics education,
and enforcement

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• Topics tonight
• Greene Shugarman, Honest Politics Ch. 2
  Presentation by David Rudoler
• Greene Shugarman, Honest Politics, Chapter 7
  (Prof. Shugarman, primary author
• of Chapter 7, will be present for the first hour
  of the Tuesday class) commentary by Prof.
  Shugarman and Andrew Tapp
• Kernaghan Langford, The Responsible Public
  Servant, Ch. 2 3 presentation by Ian Greene
• Values and Ethics Code for the Public Service
  (Canada) (class web page) presentation by
  Marlon Rhoden
• 2003 November Report of the Auditor General of
  Canada, Chapter 2, Accountability and Ethics in
  Government (http//www.oagbvg.gc.ca/internet/Eng
  lish/parl_oag_200311_02_e_12924.html)
  presentation by Glenda Providence

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Shugarman-Greene Position

• Democracy is government based on the principle of
  mutual respect, which implies
• Social equality
• Deference to the majority
• Minority rights
• Freedom
• Integrity
• These principles imply ethical duties for public
  officials impartiality, fiduciary trust, and
  accountability responsibility. The 5
  principles and 3 ethical duties are supported by
  the legal principles of the rule of law, and the
  doctrine of fairness.
• Ethics principles in the public sector are
  derived from mutual respect

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Kernaghan Langford Ch 2Acting in the Public
Interest

• Conflict between the public interest, and doing
  the will of elected politicians through political
  neutrality.
• J.E. Hodgetts p.i. slippery and mercurial
• abolitionists Glendon Schubert
• Cant separate from result of interest gp pols
• Public choice maximize self-interest
• preservationists

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Preservationist positions

• Dominant value a particular value is ultimate
  criterion (justice, equality, freedom, dignity)
• Rawls justice as fairness
• Procedural proper procedures pub int
• Consensual also consider minorities
• Cost-benefit

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Neutrality

• Neutrality doesnt mean lack of analysis or
  recommendations
• Avoid self-interest
• Overcoming value conflicts

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Kernaghan Langford Ch 3The politically neutral
public servant

• Ideal-type model
• Meritorious public servant
• Pub servants political rights
• Silent servant
• Responsible minister
• Public service anonymity
• Loyalty