The Ethics of Public Administration: The Challenges of Global Governance

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments This is an ambitious book. Fortunately, surrounding daily are many loving and similarly ambitious friends, students, and colleagues , whom we would like to thank briefly here. This project began at the frustrated behest of the many master’s and undergraduate students enrolled in the course “Ethics in Public Affairs” in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at University of Hong Kong. To these students, we owe a debt of thanks for their patience with our ignorance and the inevitable foibles as we each tried to negotiate intercultural communication between us. We would also like to thank members of the Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University and members of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at University of Hong Kong for their encouragement with this project. We also thank the Texas A&M University Political Theory Convocation for their comments on our introductory chapter. We must thank those members of the Lamma Island community , particularly our boatloads of supportive friends in the Lamma Dragon and Lamma Ladies Dragon Boat Club and the Lamma Outrigger Canoe Club for their patience with our “academic moments” in and out of the boats. In particular, we wish to thank Lisa Stella, Greg Pittams, Brian Pittams, Josh Sellars, and Natalie Stenhouse-Stewart with their assistance in editing drafts of this book. Further, we must x Acknowledgments thank the employees of the Waterfront Café for their tolerance with our lingering, working breakfasts. Carey C. Newman, the director at Baylor University Press, was a great help in preparing this work for publication, and we thank all the staff at BUP for their assistance in shaping this research into book form. Last, but not least, we would also like to thank our families, particularly the mothers to whom we dedicate this book. Dearest thanks to Janet Shreves for her editing and suggestions on an early draft of the manuscript. Thanks also to Rick Smith, Henry Wren, and Justin Gray for their support. We hope that you may all see yourself reflected in these pages. INTRODUCTION Part I ...