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Ranging over a wide array of cases, Andrew Stark draws on legal, moral, and political thought - as well as the rhetoric of office-holders and the commentary of journalists - to analyse several decades of debate over conflict of interest in American public life. He offers new ways of interpreting the controversies about conflict of interest, explains their prominence in American political combat, and suggests how we might make them less venomous and intractable. Stark shows that over the past 40 years public opinion has shifted steadily towards an objective conception of conflict: instead of considering case-by-case motivations, we have adopted broadly prophylactic rules barring a variety of circumstances with no regard to whether individuals facing those circumstances would be moved in culpable ways. At the same time, we have shifted towards a subjective conception of interest: where we once focused narrowly on money, we now inquire into various commitments individuals might pursue in ways that could impair their judgement. In exploring the consequences of these twin migrations - the passage of "conflict " from a subjective to an objective understanding, the transformation of "interest" from an objective to a subjective conception - the author aims to make our debates over public ethics less vexatious for officials, and more lucid for citizens.
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This book is perfectly poised to benefit from the country's cresting wave of conflict-of-interest outrage...The scandal of 'conflict of interest' as a moral notion, Stark recognizes, is that it's poorly named. All of us have interests that conflict. It's not logical or psychological conflict among them that we seek to eliminate in public officials and umpires. It's decision-making according to inappropriate criteria. -- Carlin Romano "Chronicle of Higher Education" (12/08/2000) Stark argues that conflicts of interest, real or imagined, are rife these days because of a combination of 'legal liberalism' and 'political liberalism'... He probes such matters with great care and thoughtfulness. His prose is superbly readable, his analysis relentless...Among other things, he offers the reader the wry pleasure of watching all the tools of Oxford philosophy deployed to decipher a legal regime designed to prevent abuses by Chicago ward heelers and Washington lobbyists. -- John O. McGinnis "Wall Street Journal" (10/30/2000) abuses by Chicago ward heelers and Washington lobbyists. of us have interests that conflict. It's not logical or psychological conflict among them that we seek to eliminate in public officials and umpires. It's decision-making according to inappropriate criteria. those of critics and champions of regulation. The result is provocative and always stimulating. [Stark] argues that conflicts of interest, real or imagined, are rife these days because of a combination of 'legal liberalism' and 'political liberalism'...[He] probes such matters with great care and thoughtfulness. His prose is superbly readable, his analysis relentless...Among other things, he offers the reader the wry pleasure of watching all the tools of Oxford philosophy deployed to decipher a legal regime designed to prevent abuses by Chicago ward heelers and Washington lobbyists.--John O. McGinnis"Wall Street Journal" (10/30/2000) Stark brings back to our attention a host of Presidential advisers, Cabinet officers and lawmakers who have been accused of, or forced to resign over, conflict of interest...Stark does not sit in judgment on particular individuals; instead, he exposes the laws and particular cases to remorseless and clever reformulation and reinterpretation. In so doing, he highlights the contradictions and inconsistencies of prosecutors and defendants, and those of critics and champions of regulation. The result is provocative and always stimulating.--Tony Badger"Times Literary Supplement" (11/10/2000) [This book is] perfectly poised to benefit from the country's cresting wave of conflict-of-interest outrage...The scandal of 'conflict of interest' as a moral notion, Stark recognizes, is that it's poorly named. All of us have interests that conflict. It's not logical or psychological conflict among them that we seek to eliminate in public officials and umpires. It's decision-making according to inappropriate criteria.--Carlin Romano"Chronicle of Higher Education" (12/08/2000)
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Ranging over a wide array of cases, Andrew Stark draws on legal, moral, and political thought - as well as the rhetoric of office-holders and the commentary of journalists - to analyse several decades of debate over conflict of interest in American public life. He offers new ways of interpreting the controversies about conflict of interest, explains their prominence in American political combat, and suggests how we might make them less venomous and intractable. Stark shows that over the past 40 years public opinion has shifted steadily towards an objective conception of conflict: instead of considering case-by-case motivations, we have adopted broadly prophylactic rules barring a variety of circumstances with no regard to whether individuals facing those circumstances would be moved in culpable ways. At the same time, we have shifted towards a subjective conception of interest: where we once focused narrowly on money, we now inquire into various commitments individuals might pursue in ways that could impair their judgement. In exploring the consequences of these twin migrations - the passage of "conflict " from a subjective to an objective understanding, the transformation of "interest" from an objective to a subjective conception - the author aims to make our debates over public ethics less vexatious for officials, and more lucid for citizens.
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Harvard University Press, 2000
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Harvard University Press, 2000
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