Searching for Virtue in the City: Bell and Her Sisters. (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Frederickson, George; Meek, Jack Wayne
• Is Part Of: Public integrity. Volume 19:Number 3(2017)
• Page Start: 234
• Page End: 249
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: Bell scandal -- city corruption -- municipal reform ethics; Civil service ethics -- United States -- Periodicals; Public administration -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- Periodicals; Political ethics -- United States -- Periodicals; Civil service ethics -- Periodicals; Public administration -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; Political ethics -- Periodicals; Civil service ethics; Political ethics; Public administration -- Moral and ethical aspects; United States; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; CIVIL SERVICE; MORAL ASPECTS; POLITICAL ETHICS; Periodicals; 172
• DOI: 10.1080/10999922.2016.1270698
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1099-9922

Abstract

Abstract : The hope for virtue in the city is to be found not just in the individual propensity to be virtuous but, more so, in the development of political and organizational rules and procedures, in virtuous leadership, and in the development of a virtuous public culture. This claim is made as a way to view what has come to be known as the Bell scandal—a scandal that fits squarely in the tradition of the municipal reform movement. The article places the scandals in Bell and its neighboring cities in this context and grounds its claims in a framework of municipal reform ethics.