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Title: Week 15: Ethics, Wrap Up, Student Presentations


1
Week 15 Ethics, Wrap Up, Student Presentations
  • Ethics -- framework for public sector ethics
  • Ethical issues in public budgeting and finance
  • Look back at course goals
  • Course evaluation
  • Begin student presentations

2
Framework for Public Sector Ethics
  • Traditional view of ethics (roots in business
    world)
  • neutrality/expertise/administration/rules/efficien
    cy
  • controls to guard against fraud, waste, abuse
  • low road of compliance -- stay out of trouble
  • means-based approach
  • Contemporary view of ethics
  • integrity/moral reasoning/leadership/justice
  • Increased administrative discretion
  • Results-oriented government gt ends-based ethics

3
Framework for Public Sector Ethics (cont.)
  • Competing roles and loyalties
  • personal
  • professional
  • organizational
  • public interest
  • ASPA Code of Ethics
  • reflects new public management
  • exercise discretionary authority
  • not much help with role conflicts

4
Ethical Issues in Public Budgeting and Finance
  • Old budgetary ethics
  • line item accountability
  • limit discretion
  • focus on allowable uses of funds
  • New budgetary ethics
  • discretion on use of funds across categories
  • program control, not line-item
  • focus on accomplishments with budgeted funds

5
Ethical Issues in Public Budgeting and Finance
(cont.)
  • Budgeting as political
  • who benefits from public budgeting decisions
  • political leadership for the public interest
  • political v rationality issues
  • Budgeting as technical
  • budget experts can withhold or frame information
  • gimmicks and fixes
  • Budget process
  • playing the budget game
  • use (abuse) of data in budget justifications
  • advocacy for program v loyalty to executive budget

6
Ethical Issues in Public Budgeting and Finance
(cont.)
  • Budget management
  • using funds for different purposes than budget
    planned
  • is it ethical to circumvent budget controls when
    they impede desirable outcomes?
  • Accountability
  • shift from accountability for use of budgeted
    funds to accountability for results
  • ethical issues in performance reporting

7
Course Goals Revisited
  • Understand political context of budgeting at
    federal, state, local levels
  • Develop working knowledge of California budget
    process, concepts, terminology
  • Learn some basic skills in budget development
  • Understand role of budgets within life of an
    agency
  • Understand budgets as tools of accountability
  • Develop some basic skills in selection and use of
    performance measures in context of budgeting
  • Improve applied (memo) writing skills
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