Ethics, Bureaucracy, and the Public Good

By: Mgalula, Eric Clement

This critical introduction to administrative ethics moves beyond virtue codes to examine history, ethical traditions, and organizational conditions shaping responsibility. It traces the arc from ordinary morality to public duty, addressing moral frameworks, bureaucratic fragmentation, and dilemmas like corruption and whistleblowing. The final chapter applies this to Tanzania-testing Utu, colonial legacies, Ujamaa, and reforms against practice. Designed with seminar questions, it treats the classroom as a forum for reasoned debate. Its core thesis: ethical governance requires virtuous persons, but depends ultimately on robust institutions that restrain power, protect voice, hear citizens, and ensure review and remedy to keep authority genuinely public.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6630468651
• ISBN13: 9786630468656
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Scholars' Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"