first ideas are...

Private interest, subgroup interest 

ignorance about some consequences of the outputs

assignment of irrelevant consequences

spite, grudge, bias, preoccupation, etc.

Lying is an obstacle, and it is rampant, even in research. I am now reading Sissela Bok's Book on Lying.

I teach Philosophy and Religious Studies, including Medical Ethics. Prof. Mary Latela, [email protected]

culture industry, blow up of peripheral values

PS: many thanks to Mary Latela, I am reading the Bok's book, my email may be in spam folder :)

Geoffrey Sayre-McCord in The international encyclopedia of ethics, under Epistemology Moral

...it seems the best explanation  of people's moral views, and of why they disagree when they do, is found in a complex combination the norms of society, their personal histories, their emotional responses, and perhaps more deeply in the evolutionary andvantages that these provide. Assuming...

short responses or actions may ease immorality

ignorance about alternatives

low self-perception (as in Horst Heidbring: Einfuehrung in die Moralpsychologie.in section 4.5 Moral action shows that moral action is more likely when person percieves herself e.g. in a mirror)

social convention (as in Turiel, E. ( 1982). Die Entwicklung sozial-konventioneller un moralischer Konzepte)

disgust and disgrace (as in Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind)

lack of socially sustainable philosophical goal (meaning)

Hi Michal

In order to help in the material that you should have at hand in the reformulation of an ethics in the public sector, where decision making is fundamental, I recommend reading Jon Elster. Especially in the following book: Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences (Cambridge, 2007)

Thank you, I like to make this list of obstacles inspirative and I bet the recomended book will be inspirative. On the other hand, I have left left this area of public decion-making and theoretical ethics in favor of media-centric theory and subjective well-being measurement. I am not sure about the book. Please, is the book likely to be still relevant to me?