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Introduction to Value and Virtue in Public Administration -- Governance and Values in Contemporary Public Service -- Public Virtue Approaches -- Ethics and Globalization in Historical Perspective: The Relevance of Socrates in Our Days -- The Clutural-Economic Perpective on Values and Virtues -- Public Administration as a Menetype B: Re-discovering Trichotomies -- Contemporary Trends and DIlemmas of Administrative Ethics in the Developing World -- The Value Profile of Civil Servants in New European Democracies Through the Lens of Embedded Ethics -- The Evil and Its Cure: Clietelism, Corruption, and Their Institutional Remedies in Latin America -- Perils and Prospects in Four African Countries -- Public Sector Value and Virtue and the OECD -- Values and Virtues in the Japanese Public Sector -- Conclusions