Enforcement/Penalties

What's an ethics commission to do? Even ethics commissions with teeth,
that is, with the ability to fine officials, rarely have a way of
actually collecting the fines. And if they do have a way of collecting
fines, it can make things look unfair.<br>
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Take South Carolina, whose ethics commission has jurisdiction over

Last's week's <a href="http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14259091&…; target="”_blank”">Economist</a>
provides a look at a new form of local government ethics enforcement in
China, which exists because local governments have failed to institute
ethics programs. That form of enforcement is murder, and it appears to
be increasingly accepted by the courts.<br>
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Ethics training is a problem at the local level. It's expensive, and
there aren't many experienced local government ethics trainers around.
Online ethics training has recently become the answer, but even this is