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    Ethics Matter: The Morality and Justice Principles of Elected City Officials and their Impact of Urban Issues

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    2012-08
    Author
    Schumaker, Paul
    Kelly, Marisa J.
    Publisher
    Wiley Blackwell
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    Article
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    Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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    This article pursues the thesis that ethics matter in urban policymaking. Interviews with 95 elected officials in 12 cities revealed the officials' support for—and opposition to—many principles of political morality and political justice. Officials regarded their ethical principles as almost as important as economic constraints on their policy decisions, and much more important than political, legal, jurisdictional, and cultural considerations. The role of ethics in the resolution of 93 issues that arose in their communities varied from minimal to decisive. On some occasions ethical considerations served mainly as justifications for policy decisions made primarily on other grounds. But more often, significant numbers of officials drew largely, and even primarily, on their own moral judgments when casting their votes on community issues. And some policies were driven by consensual moral understandings.
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    This is the author's accepted manuscript. The published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9906.2011.00583.x
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10721
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9906.2011.00583.x
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    Schumaker, P. and Kelly, M. (2012), “Ethics Matter: The Morality and Justice Principles of Elected City Officials and their Impact of Urban Issues.” Journal of Urban Affairs, 34: 231–253. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9906.2011.00583.xDOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9906.2011.00583.x

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