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1. Ethics in Congress I - Institutional Corruption (Summer Reading)

   ... Despite the book's title, Thompson (a professor at Harvard) has a great deal to say about government ethics that is equally ... City Ethics 203-859-1959 Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics:  Book Reviews Misuse of ...

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

2. The Making of a Model Website and Blog in My Hometown

   ... prosecution. Click here to read the rest of this blog entry. I had just taken over a moribund information website , ... to local government, and to, via a related and free blog , open a town discussion on the problems of town government and how to ...

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

3. A Cure for Transparency Problems: A Model Website and Blog

   ... year was creating a model (but actual working) website and blog as a response to serious transparency problems in my town. Click here to read the rest of this blog entry. In my town of 23,000, meeting agendas and minutes were not ...

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

4. ROBERT WECHSLER

   ... Ethics. He writes this site's local government ethics blog and he drafted the City Ethics Model Code From 2007-2012, he was ... to change them . A former lawyer, he is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia University Law School. You can check out Rob's ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2015-05-15 13:16

5. Institutional Corruption Conference IV: A Weakness of Compliance Systems

   ... At the Institutional Corruption conference sponsored by Harvard's Safra Ethics Center last Saturday, Ann Tenbrunsel, co-author of Blind Spots (see my blog posts on this book ), noted that people act not only against what is ...

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

6. Institutional Corruption Conference I: Duplicitous Exclusion

   ... sponsored by the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University ( videos of it will eventually appear here ). Although ... Ann Tenbrunsel, co-author of Blind Spots (see my blog posts on this book ) and a member of the second panel of the conference, ... City Ethics --- Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics:  Advisory Opinions Disclosure ...

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

7. Lessig on the Effects of Elected Officials' Dependency Problem

   ... of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University, came to government ethics in an interesting fashion. As a ... and obligations, rather than with money. (see my 2008 blog post on politics as a gift economy) The fact is that the public ...

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

8. Ethics Reform in Tallahassee, Rejection of Election Overspending by Big Contra Costa Employer

   ... ethics reform package. The brain child of Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law professor and founder of United Republic and Rootstrikers, it ... candidates sympathetic to its oil refinery in town (see my blog post ). According to an article on the Contra Costa Times website ...

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

9. Zygmunt Bauman on Responsibility, Trust, Self-Deception, and More

   ... Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? (Harvard University Press)). The Purpose of Government Ethics Bauman ... deal responsibly with their conflicts. I recently wrote a blog post arguing that government ethics can be usefully seen as a form of ...

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

10. Speaking of Ethics

    ... Nearly every article about a lecture he gave on Friday at Harvard's Safra Foundation Center for Ethics focused on whether he of all ... press has focused on what Spitzer's madam has to say in her blog and in a protest letter. She thinks it was wrong to invite Spitzer to ...

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

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