The place of ethics in the curriculum of schools of public management and policy is not a settled matter. One common approach, called applied ethics, relies primarily on the work of academic philosophers and follows a two-stage process: first, work out the guiding principles (in the academy,...

At the end of WWII, U.S. occupation forces transformed Japan from an autocratic polity into a constitutional democracy. Part of the plan called for transplanting the constitutional right to silence for criminal defendants, to replace the traditional Japanese emphasis on confessions. The failure...

At KSG, we are asking whether the skills and capacities--and therefore training--of public officials must be reconceived as governance responsibilities migrate away from the central state to other locations. The question itself assumes that we have a settled understanding of which skills and...