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1. Ethics in Congress III - Independent Advice and Enforcement (Summer Reading)

   ethics in congress.jpg Body:  Looking at government ethics ... ethics advisers are so important to an ethics program. And it is equally important to recognize that someone else should ... body to act independently toward its members. The second principle is fairness. There is often a question whether the ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

2. Moral Clarity III - Ethics Environments

   ... each of us underestimates his or her vulnerability to bad ethics environments.  Becoming aware of this vulnerability is “the first ... your friends and hurt your enemies: no other moral code had force. “Help your friends and hurt your enemies” is the moral code of ...

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3. The Kingdom of Individuals III: Obligations to the Community and to the Organization

   ... Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City Ethics --- Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics:  Book Reviews Ethics Environments ...

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4. Institutional Corruption Conference III: Cultures of Loyalty and Mutual Trust

   ... government many individuals who have a different concept of ethics. That is, in the business world, loyalty to one's supervisors (or ... the water in which a barrel floats, that is, the culture or ethics environment. He noted that the common adversarial culture of business ...

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5. Blind Spots III — Ethics Training, Ethics Fading, and Ethical Reasoning

   ... recognize a situation's ethical aspects, how can we apply ethics laws, not to mention go beyond ethics laws to consider the appearance of impropriety, the possible loss of ...

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6. The Cincinnati Situation III - Indefinite Benefits and Proximity

   ... like indirect benefits, are often not dealt with by ethics codes, and this means that they can cause confusion and controversy. ... of benefit, for determining whether a conflict exists, many ethics codes set a specific number of feet from a property or project being ...

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7. Winter Reading: Switch III - Goals and Destinations

   ... Body:  A Destination for Government Ethics Training Most cities and counties treat ethics training as a one-off phenomenon. Toss a hundred people in a room, give ... in people. A Destination for a Government Ethics Program One problem with government ethics reform is that the ...

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8. Current Ethics Reform III - Prince George's County, MD and Kenosha, WI

   ... back in 2010. The new county executive vowed to make serious ethics reform a priority, and did some valuable things in 2011, according to ... still does not appear to be a vision of a government ethics program. In my 2012 blog post on the county's ethics reform proposal , the ...

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9. Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind III: The Social Nature of Moral Judgment

   ... Righteous Mind.jpg Body:  The Ethics of Gut Reactions According to Jonathan Haidt's book ... The best way to see how important emotions are to ethics is through people whose emotions are limited, for example, psychopaths ... so many of the problems in government ethics. An ethics program that provides for enforcement, but focuses on training, ...

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10. Summer Reading: Richard Painter on Ethics Reform III

    ... on how Richard W. Painter's recommendations for federal ethics reform in his book, Getting the Government America Deserves: How ... such regulation is not instituted, there could be an opt-in program for lobbyists who wanted to distinguish themselves by agreeing to abide ...

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