Montgomery Van Wart's Changing Public Sector Values

Even though public values have been recognized to be an important factor when making decisions in public administration, there does not seem to have been progress because there has been much to debate about public service values (Rutgers 2008, 93). Although, throughout the years, there has been attempt to resolve this through notable scholarly and literary reviews published. For example, in 1998, Montgomery Van Wart wrote his book called “Changing Public Sector Values,” with the purpose to “create a field of public administration values.” Montgomery has worked in higher education in various capacities for over 30 years. He served as the Interim Dean of the College of Business and Public Administration at California State University, San Bernardino, where he was also a longtime chair of the Department of Public Administration. At the time public administration values did not exist in a recognizable form. This book was considered the “first one explicitly done and possibly among the more balanced treatments of ethics at the time It is stated that “managing values is an

Overall, their “research suggests that government has a special role as a guarantor of public values, but public values are not the exclusive province of government, nor is government the only set of institutions having public values obligations.” (Jorgensen & Bozeman,