Hierarchy, Virtue, and the Practice of Public Administration: A Perspective for Normative Ethics
通过一名宪兵军官被命令选择性执法的事例，探讨等级制度与美德在公共行政中的伦理冲突，对研究行政伦理和规范伦理的学者有参考价值。
A military police officer is instructed by a commander not to issue citations to senior officers for driving while intoxicated. Also, certain specified junior officers and noncommissioned officers whose services and support are needed are to be similarly exempted. However, citations are to be issued strictly to all other personnel and maximum punishment is to be sought. When the officer objects to this order on the grounds of its illegality and unfairness, he is threatened with a poor proficiency rating and removal from his position.