How to Create an Inspector General's Office (Legislation and Charter Amendment)
April 29, 2015
Speech given to OGE by Dennis Thompson
The Paradoxes of Political Ethics
Dennis F. Thompson
Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Emeritus - Harvard University
Government Ethics Conference
Office of Government Ethics
Virginia Beach, Virginia
September 11-13, 1991
Good afternoon: members of the “priesthood of ethics counselors,” “roving commissars” of ethics, “mullahs of the U.S. Government.”
Resources & Learning
April 29, 2015
Institutional Corruption: Course summary for ethics professionals
Ethical Reasoning: Institutional Corruption was a course held from January 28, 2014 through May 26, 2014 at Harvard College. It was taught by Lawrence Lessig (Law School) and William E. English. The course consisted of 26 lectures and accompanying materials.
Resources & Learning
April 29, 2015
Future of Ethics Training: Trends
Francesca Gino, Bidhan (Bobby) Parmar and Julia Lee
To build on the gains made in recent years, ethics training will have to accomplish several goals. First, ethics training needs to focus on unleashing participants’ intrinsic motivation to be ethical, rather than rely on sol
April 28, 2015
Promo piece: Government Ethics Toolkit
Local Government Practice
April 27, 2015
Protecting Whistleblowers: Best Practices for Promoting Ethics in Government
Protecting Whistleblowers:
Best Practices for Promoting Ethics in Government
by Dana L. Gold[1]
Senior Fellow, Government Accountability Project
April 27, 2015
Tallahassee Referendum
Huffington Post article on the 11/4 referendum...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/04/tallahassee-anti-corruption_n_…
April 20, 2015
About City Ethics
CITY ETHICS is a non-profit organization formed in 2000. Its purpose is to provide a centralized location for information and resources for all forms of local government ethics programs. City Ethics was started by attorney and former federal prosecutor Carla Miller and her husband, Don McClintock, who has a long career in the technology sector.
Resources & Learning
April 20, 2015
City Ethics Publications
Resources & Learning
April 20, 2015
Books of Interest
Most books of relevance to local government ethics deal with administrative ethics, that is, the ethical behavior of government administrators, rather than with conflicts or government ethics programs. However, they do deal partially with government ethics, and it is valuable to see how government ethics fits in the larger context of administrative ethics. Most of the books on government ethics deal primarily with the federal and state levels; the ones that focus on local government are either old or international.