Government Ethics: Vol 1 (Teaching Ethics) - Hardcover

I have enjoyed your Teaching Ethics [Government Ethics] very much and I ve had occasion to use it as well ... I was invited to Mongolia to consult with Government officials there about government ethics and ethics codes and I found your volume s international perspective very helpful in approaching that task . --Ann Bailey, Chief Counsel, California Legislature, Senate Committee on Legislative Ethics (USA)

... a library of material sufficiently compact to be of practical value in educational programmes for present and future participants in government, whether as politicians or officials . --Sir Peter Baldwin, Formerly Deputy Secretary, HM Treasury, Permanent Secretary, Department of Transport (UK)

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Government Ethics is the first in the Teaching Ethics Series, pioneered by Centre for Business and Public Sector Ethics, Cambridge, UK. Edited by the Centre s Director, Dr Rosamund Thomas, this book is a key aid to Good Government and anti-corruption world-wide. The book charts the way forward drawing on the experiences of the UK, USA, Canada, and India, including codes of ethics and financial disclosure of interests by Members of Parliament and others. The contents cover: Government Ethics General Conflicts of interest Secrecy, Access to information and Privacy Concepts, Education and training Foreword by Sir Robin Butler, GCB, with contributions by Sir John Bourn, then UK National Audit Office; the Hon. Malcolm Wilkey (USA); Professor O. P. Dwivedi, University of Guelph, Canada, and a case-study of allegations of conflict of interest concerning the Hon. Sinclair M. Stevens (then Canadian Minister). Concepts including trust are discussed, alongside education and training for public sector ethics. Essential reading for university courses in politics, public policy, public administration, management and law, as well as for practising policy-makers, public administrators, lawyers and public sector education and training generally.