Professor J Patrick Dobel

J. Patrick Dobel is the Corbally Professor Emeritus in Public Service at the University of Washington. He teaches at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. His work studies the intersection of politics, institutions and judgment, and his teaching has covered strategy, leadership, public ethics and management. His main research explores the integration of values and institutional structure in articles such as "Holy Evil" and work on leadership legacy or political corruption....See more

J. Patrick Dobel is the Corbally Professor Emeritus in Public Service at the University of Washington. He teaches at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. His work studies the intersection of politics, institutions and judgment, and his teaching has covered strategy, leadership, public ethics and management. His main research explores the integration of values and institutional structure in articles such as "Holy Evil" and work on leadership legacy or political corruption. As an advisor on ethics and management, he has worked with many public and nonprofit agencies and served as the chair of various ethics commissions such King County and Seattle, Washington. He has authored several award winning articles as well as many others on public leadership, ethics, and integrity in journals such as The American Political Science Review, Public Administration Review, Administration and Society and Public Integrity. His books Compromise and Political Action: Political Morality in Liberal and Democratic Life, and Public Integrity are widely taught and study the reality of ethics in public life. See less