Ethik und Politikmanagement

Political scandals like the Guttenberg Affair, the discussion on digital surveillance, global warming, and the exit from nuclear and fossil-fuel energy pose questions on the relationship between ethics and politics. From the perspective of public policy management a diversity of normative aspects become relevant for democracy research. How can deliberation on energy and climate ethics be converted into an effective climate policy? What is the impact of ethics councils and ethics commissions on specific political decision-making processes? Can ethical deliberation and reasoning influence the parliamentary work? In what way do representatives change their “political management” in “ethically enriched” public debates?
The basis for this special volume “Ethics and Political Management” is a sequence of theoretically oriented essays which provide an introduction to debates of an ethics-oriented political science and reflect on current research topics (i.e. ethics and post-democracy, ethics and organizations or the influence of “ethical advisory bodies”, such as the Deutscher Ethikrat (German Ethics Council), on parliamentary processes). In the second part of this book policy experts explore the status of “processes of ethicization” within their field of study.