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Why Ethics and Public
Policy?
Ethical Issues Micro:
• Personal Values: votes of Catholic/Mormon
politicians
• Political corruption: appointment of
Senators/Federal prosecutors
• Whistleblowing: Russell Tice, Pamela Davis
• Deception: Weapons of mass destruction
• Use of violence by government: torturing
prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo
prisons
Why Ethics and Public
Policy?
Ethical Issues Macro:
• Stem cell research
• Global warming
• Sub-prime mortgage rescue
• IRS tax code
• Abortion
• Affirmative Action
Reasons for Ethical Concern
in Public Policy
• Monopoly on violence/coercion
• Govt. provision/distribution of valued
goods
• Government responsibility for rights
Ethical/Moral Principles
• What rights/obligations should be
respected when affecting other’s well
being?
• What standards should
practices/policies satisfy when they
affect well being?
• Is action disinterested? -- Could action
be accepted by anyone?
Subject for inquiry
Meaning, justification, applications of
moral principles in political/policy life.
• Process/Means
• Policies/Ends
General Approach of PLCY 240
John Rawls: Two US ethical traditions
• Utilitarianism
• Rights
Problem of identifying/faming ethical
issues
• case analysis
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