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Abuse of Citizen Ignorance in an Ethics-Related Referendum
... 9, 2012 (see below) People tend to think that all good government people are alike. The thinking goes that those who favor the improvement of ethics programs also favor such things as term limits, referendums ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments
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EC Members and the Law-Ethics Distinction
Body: Should ethics commission members follow ethics laws to the letter, and no further, or ... and their words that only the letter of the law matters in government ethics. According to an article in yesterday's New York ... under the law, according to this purely legalistic view of government ethics. It's bad enough for a lobbyist to take this legalistic ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Perils of Prohibiting Officials from Having Conflicts of Interest
... One of the most frequent mistakes in the drafting of a government ethics code is prohibiting officials from having conflicts of interest. ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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There's a Lot We Can Learn from Adolf Eichmann -- Really
... Body: Adolf Eichmann is the iconic extreme of the government bureaucrat. Not that any of us will hopefully ever be given orders ... following orders. There’s a lot more about government ethics that can be learned from Adolf Eichmann, I found from reading Hannah ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Art of Making People Skittish
... over, presidents, movie stars, and models. Welcome a local government ethics officer to your ranks. Yes, at last a local government ethics ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Miscellany
... is usually provided by a waiver process, under the ethics commission's authority (Stamford has an active EC). It is hard to ... one council member has established an Ethics and Good Government work group to come up with proposals for improving the city government's ethics program. The group held a forum earlier this month to ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Procuring Trouble
... to open a brothel, I thought: what would happen if a local government official and a prostitute visited a local government attorney to ask ... legality of giving this woman a contract is irrelevant. Ethics laws cannot account for every misuse of office. Ethics provisions are ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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ERC Releases Report:
Body: The Ethics Resource Center in Washington DC has released an interesting document for anyone active in the Ethics & Compliance Officer field - see the quotes below which give a taste ... the link to the paper. It may be elsewhere... [quote=The Ethics Resource Center (See: http://www.ethics.org/CECO/ )]"This paper ...
donmc - 2015-05-15 14:06 - 0 comments
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Complicity Provisions: Dealing Responsibly with Conflicts
... problem that does not apply to him personally? Few ethics codes contain complicity provisions that deal with this problem. The ... to a violation of an ethics code, then the message is that government ethics is only about preventing self-serving, not about ... to seriously undermine the public's confidence in a town's government, let the mayor deal with a problem like this one. That's what's ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind VI: Fairness and Moral Disgust
... But what is most interesting with respect to government ethics is the third cluster of moral themes, divinity, which includes ... What is interesting is how active divinity is when government ethics issues arise. Clearly there is the issue of sin: people get ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
