Ethics Care Public Administration? Using Stensota Articles

¶ … ethics care" public administration? Using Stensota articles readings, describe "ethics care." After describing ethics care, give examples "ethics care" a modern employee public sector.

In my opinion, the fundamental part of Stensota's article is her argumentation, where she mentions that the concept of an "ethics of care" is centered on "human dependency" and on "relations between people." This means that the concept of ethics shifts from the obedience to norms and authority towards a more complex model in which the interest is also towards acting in the interest of the community and of society.

In public administration, as Stensota points out, the concept of ethics of care becomes relevant since public administration is, overall, determined or impacted by the relationship between the state apparatus and bureaucracy and its citizens. The more public administration is directed and managed in a way that positively impacts the population, the more one can evaluate public administration as being efficient.

As a consequence, actions that could be accounted for in the context of an ethics of care in public administration are actions that encourage and improve transparency. Today, in a multicultural society, transparency becomes more and more the instrument by which citizens are informed about governmental actions and about the rules and regulations that they need to abide by in their interaction with the state. These actions can include organizing free seminars, information campaigns over the Internet, more frequent interactions with citizens, translating documentation in languages that are part of the community etc.

Another action in public administration could be the improvement of the social welfare and medical systems. The idea here is that ethics of care looks to the interdependency between individuals and to the idea that every individual can be helped, one way or another, to integrate and perform well in society. These programs could aim to train people for jobs or similar activities.

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I have selected Napoleon Bonaparte as the leader who was both effective and immoral at the same time. There are several arguments in favor of his selection, but they most interesting part is that it is difficult to characterize him as solely immoral. As many historical characters, he was ambivalent. He was malefic in the sense that he implemented an efficient military dictatorship in France and, then, in the rest of Europe. He was also malefic because thousands of people were killed during the wars he undertook throughout the continent.

However, some of these wars can also be justified with the explanations that he actually fought to carry into Europe the ideas of the French Revolution, many of which are the basis of today's society. He was just as efficient in implementing these changes as he was in his wars, which brought death and destruction. Many of the European countries today use his judicial codes and public administration today is also a reflection of his work. He was efficient both in implementing these and also in creating mechanisms that ensured they lived after his death.