Public ethics and governance standards and practices in comparative perspective /

• Other Authors: Saint-Martin, Denis, 1962-, Thompson, Fred
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2006.
• Series: Research in public policy analysis and management ; v. 14.
• Subjects: Business & Economics > General.; Social Science > General.; Politics & government.; Social & political philosophy.; Political ethics.

This important volume looks at conflicts of interest, codes of ethics, and the regulation of corruption in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the European Community. It finds that there is less corruption than ever before, but the gap between public expectations and percep...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Fred Thompson
• Canada's upside-down world of public-sector ethics / Andrew Stark
• The costs and benefits of ethics laws / B.A. Rosenson
• The effects of legislative ethics law : an institutional perspective / Alan Rosenthal
• Managerial leadership and the ethical importance of legacy / J. Patrick Dobel
• Professional ethics for politicians? / John Uhr
• Ethical political conduct and fidelity to the democratic ethos / Colin M. Macleod
• Governing pluralism / Andrew Sabl
• Ethical reasoning, epistemology, and administrative inquiry / James W. Myers, Fred Thompson
• The ethics eruption : sources and catalysts / Robert Williams
• Codes of conduct for public officials in Europe : common label, divergent purposes / David Hine
• Path dependence and self-reinforcing processes in the regulation of ethics in politics : toward a framework for comparative analysis / Denis Saint-Martin
• Political ethics and responsible government / Andrew Potter
• Comparing systems of ethics regulation / Oonagh Gay.