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Resources & Learning June 8, 2015

A Voter's Obligation to the Public Interest

Last week, Edward B. Foley, who directs Election Law @ Moritz, Ohio State's law school, put online the draft of a paper entitled "Voters as Fiduciaries." The paper makes the argument that voters should not be voting their personal interests, but should instead be expressing their best judgment of w…
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Conflicts of Interest June 3, 2015

A City of Industry, and Conflicts Galore

Anyone who follows my blog knows that my favorite city to write about is Vernon, CA, the "Dream Machine," a city with lots of industry and no one other than city employees who might complain about what's in their backyard, or call for oversight. But Vernon is not the only city of its kind, not even…
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Campaign Finance & Pay-to-Play May 21, 2015

Super PACs Go Local, Big Time

Philadelphia's Democratic mayoral primary this week brings the national focus on Super PACs to the local level. In that primary, which is the most important election in that Democratically-inclined city, most of the money that was spent was spent by Super PACs, not by candidates. According to an ar…
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May 19, 2015

Max Bazerman

TRENDS IN ETHICS TRAININGMAX BAZERMANMax is the Straus Professor at the Harvard Business School and the Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also formally affiliated with the Program on Negotiation.(**Recommendation: Read Max's book: Blind Spots) The …
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May 19, 2015

Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is a social psychologist who studies morality, emotion, and culture.  I would highly recommend his book: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient WisdomBelow ar…
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Resources & Learning April 30, 2015

Free & open source tools for ethics practitioners

       WELCOME !!!This webpage is the result of my 2 year affiliation (2013-5) with the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. I was fortunate to participate as a Network Fellow in Larry Lessig's "Lab" on Institutional Corruption (IC). My goal in creating this webpage was to curate and summa…
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Resources & Learning April 30, 2015

Robert Prentice on the future of ethics training—trends

Robert Prentice, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin(Robert has developed an excellent website for teaching ethics: 3 series and 44 videos, including teaching notes. One of the best ethics educational resources in the country.)                An important portion of the future…
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April 30, 2015

Dan Ariely

  Dan is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight.See Dan's TED talk: Our Buggy Moral Code. and his Website.This is an excerpt from an interview he did with EthicalSystems.org in April, 2015.How …
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Resources & Learning April 29, 2015

New Course: The Purpose of Government Ethics

Please click on the link below for the course document in Word (docx) format. Course Materials: The Purpose of Government Ethics
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Local Government Practice April 29, 2015

How to Create an Inspector General's Office (Legislation and Charter Amendment)

  The bill creating the Inspector General Office Jax 2014-519 The bill putting it on the ballot to extend the jurisdiction of the IG office to all independent authorities (Electric, Port, Transportation, Airport, and all elected constitutional officers.)  The referendum passed in March 2015. Jax 20…
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