Lee Drutman’s The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate (2015) is an excellent book about corporate lobbying at the federal level. Drutman is especially good on the reasons for the growth of this lobbying, particularly the reasons wh…

Last week, Edward B. Foley, who directs Election Law @ Moritz, Ohio State's law school, put online the draft of a paper entitled "Voters as Fiduciaries." The paper makes the argument that voters should not be voting their personal interests, but should instead be expressing their best judgment of w…

       WELCOME !!!This webpage is the result of my 2 year affiliation (2013-5) with the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. I was fortunate to participate as a Network Fellow in Larry Lessig's "Lab" on Institutional Corruption (IC). My goal in creating this webpage was to curate and summa…

Robert Prentice, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin(Robert has developed an excellent website for teaching ethics: 3 series and 44 videos, including teaching notes. One of the best ethics educational resources in the country.)                An important portion of the future…

Please click on the link below for the course document in Word (docx) format. Course Materials: The Purpose of Government Ethics