Overview
- Identifies six core ethical competencies for public leadership in pluralist societies
- Written by a practitioner, for practitioners
- Develops a set of soft skills and interpersonal competencies for putting pluralist democratic politics into practice
- Offers tools for mentoring and professional development
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book identifies six ethical competencies for public leadership in contexts of pluralism. While diversity in proximity generates conflict where people want and value different things, the right kind of leadership and the right kind of politics can minimise domination, humiliation, cruelty and violence.
Written by a public policy advisor for fellow practitioners in politics and public life, this book applies political theory and social ethics to identify a set of competencies—being civil, diplomatic, respectful, impartial, fair and prudent—to keep ethics at the centre of a pluralist democratic politics. The six competencies are described in behavioural terms as personal resolutions. They offer valuable tools for mentoring and professional development.
This book will appeal to politicians and those who advise them, and anyone who engages in or aspires to public leadership, whether in the public sector, the private sector, the community and voluntary sector or academia.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
David Bromell has worked in senior policy advice roles in central and local government in New Zealand since 2003. He teaches political philosophy and public policy part-time in the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington. He is a Senior Associate of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at Victoria University and an Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Canterbury.
He has been a visiting research fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, the University of Otago and the NRW School of Governance at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethical Competencies for Public Leadership
Book Subtitle: Pluralist Democratic Politics in Practice
Authors: David Bromell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27943-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27942-4Published: 13 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27945-5Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27943-1Published: 31 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 190
Topics: Public Administration, Political Leadership, Public Policy, Political Communication