In the first book of its kind, Leo Huberts provides a critical synthesis of cutting-edge research on public sector integrity exploring issues such as the definition and importance of public sector integrity, the various methodological approaches to the field as well as considering the causes of for the violation of values associated with integrity.

This book addresses a most important, yet hardly addressed topic in the field of ethics, values and norms in governance, that is, the integrity of our elites, administrators and street level bureaucrats. For more than two decades, Leo Huberts has done in-depth investigations on this dimension of public ethics and this book is the excellent culmination thereof. Because the book addresses the definition of integrity, the causes of integrity problems and relates this to principles of governance, this book is a must-read for all scholars and students interested in understanding what causes our leaders and their staff sometimes to act differently than they are supposed to act.

Michiel S de Vries/President of IASIA, Chair in Public Administration, Radboud University Nijmegen

Autorentext

Zeger van der Wal, National University of Singapore Karin Lasthuizen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands Gjalt De Graaf, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands Fredérique Six, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands Mieke van Tankeren, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands André van Montfort, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands Hester Paanakker, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Inhalt

1. Introduction; Leo Huberts 2 The Multi Disciplinarity of Ethics and Integrity of Governance; Leo Huberts 3 Integrity and Integritism; Leo Huberts 4. Governance and Integrity; Leo Huberts 5 What Is Valued in Politics and Administration; Leo Huberts and Zeger van der Wal 6 What Goes Wrong: Integrity Violations; Leo Huberts and Karin Lasthuizen 7 Why It Goes Wrong: Causes of Corruption; Leo Huberts and Gjalt de Graaf 8. What Is Done to Protect Integrity: Policies, Institutions, and Systems; Leo Huberts, Fredérique Six, Mieke van Tankeren, André van Montfort and Hester Paanakker 9 Placing Integrity of Governance in Context; Leo Huberts