Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business, and Healthcare

Dennis Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. Thompson suggests that we stop thinking about public ethics in terms of individual vices (such as selfishness or sexual misconduct) and start thinking about it in terms of institutional vices (such as abuse of power and lack of accountability).

Author: Dennis F. Thompson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/20/2004
Pages: 349
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780521547222

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 189

About the Author
Thompson, Dennis F.: - Dennis F. Thompson is Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy and Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.