1. Managing ethics in the public services -- 2. Ethical theory : what is the right thing to do and who is to say so? -- 3. Public interest: is there such a thing and what purpose does it serve? -- 4. Public service motivation and ethos : why do public officials work above and beyond the call of...

This paper assesses the validity of normative claims on how civil servant values in East Asian and Western European administrations differ. By triangulating quantitative and qualitative survey data from a sample of Chinese (n=508) and Dutch (n=238) civil servants we aim to answer two main...