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1. An Excellent Report Recommending an Ethics Program for a Regional Transit Authority

   ... Authority (WMATA), based on an investigation of an ethics issue involving a Washington, D.C. council member and transit authority ... improvements to its governance rules and its code of ethics. Cadwalader's ethics-related recommendations, which appeared in ...

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

2. Why Government Ethics Programs Have Limited Subject Matter Jurisdiction

   Body:  An individual who was asking me government ethics questions recently became angry when I said that codes of conduct that ... who engage in bad conduct will probably also engage in bad ethics. He referred to my exclusive focus on conflicts of interest as ...

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

3. Should an Ethics Commission Member Be Affiliated with a Firm That Represents Clients Before It?

   ... although too infrequent blog that looks at government ethics and campaign finance from the compliance side, that is, from the ... the country, it represents numerous government officials in ethics and election law matters, and it has many former and even current ...

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

4. Ethics Advice, Power, and Ideology

   ... come to me for permission (what is commonly referred to as "ethics advice") when I was the administrator of a public campaign ... as administrator, and in my current role as a government ethics adviser at large, I have never thought about advice as a matter of power ...

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

5. Ethics in Congress V - Constituent Service (Summer Reading)

   ethics in congress.jpg Body:  Constituent service is a basic ... ( click here to read the principal exception ). Government ethics focuses too much on votes and self-serving conduct, and too little on ... service is central to Dennis F. Thompson's book Ethics in Congress: From Individual to Institutional Corruption . He ...

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

6. Slapping Down a Council Colleague with a Self-Regulated Ethics Program

   ... California that has already been the subject of a City Ethics blog post . One of the most striking things about the situation is ... against someone who appears to have been found guilty of an ethics violation in order to stop her criticism of council actions (that is, by ...

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

7. Ethics in Congress VI - Quotations and Ideas (Summer Reading)

   ethics in congress.jpg Body:  My last post about Dennis F. Thompson's book Ethics in Congress: From Individual to Institutional Corruption is ... would best help voters make balanced judgments about the ethics of members. … By itself, disclosure may merely further undermine ...

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

8. The Public Sea and Local Government Ethics Jurisdiction

   ... for Virtue in the Public Life: Revisiting the Vulgar Ethics Thesis ," involves what he calls "the modern extended state," the "vast ... hands of civil servants. The result, in terms of government ethics, is the removal of patronage, nepotism, embezzlement, and other sorts ...

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

9. Jacksonville's Recent Ethics Code Revisions

   Body:  Jacksonville's Ethics Commission recently went through a two year revision process of their City's Ethics Code. The resulting updates were finally ratified by the City Council ... up in a separate blog entry later. From: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/113007/opl_221526913.shtml . The ...

   donmc - 2007-12-03 10:52 - 0 comments

10. Council Ethics Committees

    Body:  Many local legislative bodies have ethics committees, even where there is an ethics commission. The reason for these self-regulatory committees is ... discussed, and amended separate from the city or county's ethics program. Some local ethics programs consist of nothing more than a ...

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

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