Marketing

Joint Marketing Arrangements with Special Groups and the Electronic Commerce Joint Marketing Arrangements with Special Groups in the Online Business Law Literature Review on Ethics and Marketing In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Ali Besharat, Ryan J. […]

Crisis Management

Literature Review on (Ethics) Crisis Management In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Lina Svedin offers the following summary about the topic of (Ethics) Crisis Management: Ethics and crisis management covers a number of different areas. Primarily they can be […]

Philosophy

Contents Philosophy and theory of Law

Special topics of philosophy and theory of law

This topic covers the following: Origin of Law Sources of Law Nature of Law Limits of law Rule of law Legal reasoning Justice and injustice Equal protection of the law […]

Administrative Reform

Literature Review on Ethics and Administrative Reform In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Jeroen Maesschalck offers the following summary about the topic of Ethics and Administrative Reform: The implementation of "new public management" as well as […]

War

Introduction to War War, in international law, armed conflict between two or more governments or states. When such conflicts assume global proportions, they are known as world wars. War between different parts or factions of the same nation is called civil war. A rebellion is not legally […]

Natural Law

A typical definition of natural law which overstressed the universality of the concept was provided by Olivecrona (1971: 8): In contradistinction to positive law, 'natural law' generally means a law that has not been posited. Even if it is ascribed to the will of God, it is supposed to […]

Public Policy

Political Science: Fields in Political Science: Public Policy Introduction to Public Policy The field of public policy involves the study of specific policy problems and governmental responses to them. Political scientists involved in the study of public policy attempt to devise solutions […]

Accounting

Accounting Definition Accounting may be defined as the process of identifying, measuring, recording (see Bookkeeping), and communicating economic information about an organization or other entity, in order to permit informed judgments by users of the information. Introduction […]

Conflict of Interest

Conflict of Interest in Election Law Personal, direct or indirect interest of a member or staff of an Election Management Body (EMB), whether financial or otherwise, that is related to any matter that comes up for decision before that EMB. In such a case, the member or staff of the EMB […]

Sociology

Introduction to Sociology Sociology may be defined as the scientific study of human social relations or group life. See more definitions of Sociology in the Legal Dictionary. Other disciplines within the social sciences-including economics, political science, anthropology, and […]

Ethics

Occupational Ethics This include clergy; legal ethics; professional conduct of judges, lawyers; jury ethics; business ethics; economic ethics, ethics of finance, manufacturing, marketing, trade; corporate social responsibility; gambling business; other professions and occupations. Ethics, […]

Standards of Conduct

Literature Review on (Ethics) Standards of Conduct In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Jeremy F. Plant offers the following summary about the topic of (Ethics) Standards of Conduct: Standards of conduct are statements of right behavior intended to guide the […]

Ethical Management

Literature Review on Ethical Management In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Hester Paanakker and Leonie Heres provide the following summary about the topic of Ethical Management: Safeguarding ethics and integrity has become an important indicator of public […]

Crisis Situations

Literature Review on Ethics and Crisis Situations In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Carole L. Jurkiewicz offers the following summary about the topic of Ethics and Crisis Situations: organizational concerns in times of crisis are necessarily focused on […]

Advocacy

"Advocacy is the art of persuasion" Advocacy may be a promotion of a cause or point of view. It is also a general term related to a legal professional (advocate) who represents a client's interests in the courtroom; this term has no particular standing in English law, but is used in […]

Deontology

Literature Review on (Ethics) Deontology In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] James R. Heichelbech offers the following summary about the topic of (Ethics) Deontology: Deontology differs from utilitarianism insofar as it specifically excludes consequences as […]

Public Policy Discourse

Literature Review on (Ethics) Biomedical and Public Policy Discourse In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] John Abbott Worthley offers the following summary about the topic of (Ethics) Biomedical and Public Policy Discourse: What is the nature of public […]

Ethical Competence

Literature Review on Ethical Competence In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Richard Michael Jacobs offers the following summary about the topic of Ethical Competence: Ethical competence continues to be an essentially contested concept. Six ethical theories […]

Theocracy

Introduction to Theocracy Theocracy (Greek theokratia, "government by a god"), constitution, or polity, of a country in which God is regarded as the sole sovereign and the laws of the realm are seen as divine commands. By extension a theocracy is a country in which control is in the […]

Administrative Evil

Literature Review on (Ethics) Administrative Evil In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Danny L. Balfour offers the following summary about the topic of (Ethics) Administrative Evil: Administrative evil draws attention to the limitations of public service, […]

Tradition

The concept of tradition draws on John Henry Merryman's classic development of a multi-disciplinary, historical approach to the study of law. As he wrote in 1969: A legal tradition . . . is a set of deeply rooted, historically conditioned attitudes about the nature of law, about the role of […]

Value Co-Creation

Literature Review on (Ethics) Value Co-Creation In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Melissa Archpru Akaka and Angeline Nariswari provide the following summary about the topic of (Ethics) Value Co-Creation: This entry provides an overview of the concept of […]

Truthfulness

Literature Review on (Ethics) Truthfulness and Lying In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Roger Green offers the following summary about the topic of (Ethics) Truthfulness and Lying: The concepts of truthfulness and lying pose a number of significant concerns […]

Teleology

Literature Review on (Ethics) Utilitarianism and Teleology In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] James R. Heichelbech offers the following summary about the topic of (Ethics) Utilitarianism and Teleology: Teleology and utilitarianism describe approaches to […]

Feminist Perspective

Literature Review on (Ethics) Feminist Perspective In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Dana Burr Bradley offers the following summary about the topic of (Ethics) Feminist Perspective: Emerging as a specific area of academic philosophy in the 1980s, feminist […]

Impropriety

Literature Review on (Ethics) Appearance of Impropriety In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Stuart C. Gilman offers the following summary about the topic of (Ethics) Appearance of Impropriety: Integrity is the key to public service. Today there is an […]

Milgram Experiments

Literature Review on (Ethics) Milgram Experiments In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Holona L. Ochs and Andrew B. Whitford provide the following summary about the topic of (Ethics) Milgram Experiments: The results of Milgram's research provides us with […]