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1. Summer Reading: Corruption and American Politics VI - The Final Three Essays

   ... Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics:  Book Reviews Contractors and Vendors Disclosure ...

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2. Like Constitutions, Interpreting Ethics Codes Requires Understanding, Humility, and Transparency

   ... isn't about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book. It is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of people's ... my Duke Law School colleague Jefferson Powell wrote in his book "Constitutional Conscience," a truly ethical judge will be honest about ...

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3. A Look at 2013

   ... As for publications, I do not know of any new book on state or local government ethics other than the second edition of my book Local Government Ethics Programs and the new Nutshell ...

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4. Hatch Act Problems and a Solution

   ... Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics:  Book Reviews Conflicts Political Activity/Patronage ...

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

   ... Body:  Lawrence Lessig's excellent new book Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It ... our public officials. There's a lot more to Lessig's book that is irrelevant to local government ethics. But his portrayal of ...

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6. Winter Reading: Switch III - Goals and Destinations

   ... year or two. One of the case studies in Chip and Dan Heath's book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Crown, 2010) ... No Dry Holes There's a case study in the book about British Petroleum (BP) drilling for oil. It used to strike oil only ...

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7. Three Personal Myths That Hamper Our Ethical Decision-Making, and a Fool-ish Solution

   ... Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics:  Book Reviews Complicity and Knowledge Ethics Environments ...

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8. Institutional Corruption Conference II: Definition and Diagnosis

   ... Corruption Dennis Thompson, a Harvard professor whose book Ethics in Congress I wrote about in several posts last year, spoke ... to do it. I have devoted a long chapter of my forthcoming book to the various approaches to ethics reform. Robert Wechsler ...

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9. Oakland Council Proposes Ethics Reform Charter Amendment

   ... approaches, see the section on budget guarantees in my book Local Government Ethics Programs ). This is a reasonable approach. ... to ethics advice (see my discussion of the reasons in my book Local Government Ethics Programs). If this charter amendment passes ...

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10. The Gap Between Advice and Enforcement, and The Isolation of Independence

    ... program, many of the innovative ideas I discuss in my new book, Local Government Ethics Programs , would be out of place. One ... too often. Here's a summary of the idea straight out of the book. Think how different a government ethics program would be if it ...

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