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1. Government Ethics and the Clash Between Rules-Based and Ends-Based Ethical Approaches

   ... getting the best result for the most number of citizens. How you get there matters far less than the result. The process and the rules ... justify the means, they often determine them. This is how government officials are judged. A council member who uses her power, and ...

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

2. Issues Arising from an Iowa Complaint Dismissal

   ... Board (ECDB) last week. The issues include: (1) how to treat an inadequate complaint; (2) how to treat a complainant in a proceeding, and (3) what to do when an ethics ...

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

3. Unpaid Advisers and the Misuse of Inside Information

   ... to facts, such as where subway stops will be placed or how much contractors have bid. But facts are not all that is valuable to those ... facts, but the likelihood that a bill will be passed (e.g., how many council members have been lined up to vote) or whether there's a good ...

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

4. The Jersey Sting

   ... post of that date ). It's a real page-turner that shows how things work and how easy it can be for anyone with money to make deals with elected officials, ...

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

5. Ethics Commissions

   ... important issue here is an Ethics Commission's independence: how important it is and how best a municipality can achieve it. With respect to EC independence and ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2009-06-09 06:02 - 5 comments

6. We Need a Support Network

   ... ideas about what a site like City Ethics should look like, how it can be improved. While local government players are talking about how to get around ethics laws, how to keep them from being improved, how to ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment

7. Is the Principal Cause of Ethical Misconduct Within Us?

   ... at the exam: they asked me, where does a photon come from? How does it manage to appear? Where was it before? … I, who had not thought ... in this moment are not found inside of me. That's how I've managed to reconcile myself to Jean-Claude's dishonesty without having ...

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

8. Lack of Transparency and Voter Indifference Can Make a Big Difference

   ... Los Angeles County) should make people think again about how central transparency and citizen participation are to preventing unethical ... — but did not cite any other ways the charter changed how Bell did business." In effect, when citizens vote without knowing what ...

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

9. A Reminder About Ethical Reminders

   ... made up a test that is easy to cheat on, in order to see how social situations might affect students’ choices whether to actually ... rest of this blog entry. In a government bureaucracy, how often are there reminders about the city's ethics code? A few cities ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2008-03-16 09:11 - 0 comments

10. "Perception of Impropriety"

    ... we even avoid the perception of unethical behaviour ? How can we do this without moving far from what the average elected official ... and Glenn H. Reynolds'' The Appearance of Impropriety: How the Ethics Wars Have Undermined American Govt, Business, and Society (Free ...

    donmc - 2006-05-03 11:40 - 1 comment

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