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  1. The Public's Trust in Government: A Book Review

    ... beyond this about the concept of trust. I just read a book called The Moral Foundations of Trust by Eric M. Uslaner (Cambridge University Press, 2002). This book's focus is on what the author calls 'generalized trust,' that is, the ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2007-07-23 11:55 - 0 comments

  2. Best Practices from the Book "Local Government Ethics Programs"

    The second edition of the resource book Local Government Ethics Programs will be put up on the City Ethics ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2013-06-20 08:35 - 0 comments

  3. Book Excerpt 1: Fiduciary Duty

    ... of posts that will pull out valuable pieces from my new book Local Government Ethics Programs . One reason that ...

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

  4. Local Government Ethics Programs in a Nutshell

    ... years of blog posts, a Model Ethics Code, and the resource book Local Government Ethics Programs . But this is far too much ... your preferred format from the images below. Right click the HTML format to open the book on a webpage in a separate tab or window. Or, to ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2015-04-20 12:05 - 3 comments

  5. Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind IX: Moral Capital, Blind Spots, and Asking

    ... Body:  Moral Capital In his book The Righteous Mind : Why Good People Are Divided by Politics ... capital (as I discuss in the first of my posts on this book ) as a "moral system." In doing so, he recognizes the importance of an ...

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

  6. EC vs. Corp. Counsel in Honolulu

    ... has gone public. I devoted a long section of my book Local Government Ethics Programs to the conflicts of interest and ... (wrongly, I believe; see the discussion of this in my book ), there is no way for the EC to know what ethics advice is being given, ...

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

  7. An Advisory Opinion Concerning Constituent Services

    ... opinions," is itself very valuable (see the section of my book Local Government Ethics Programs on general advisory opinions). ... All an EC needs to do is make one big file of its opinions (HTML rather than the usual PDF, so that readers don't have to download a huge ...

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

  8. Fire, Smoke, and Snowballs

    ... is personal. A review in this weekend's New York Times Book Review got me thinking about this. The book, by Seth Rosenfeld, is entitled Subversives ; the reviewer is Matt ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments

  9. Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind I

    ... Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Pantheon, 2012) is a book that does not, from its title, appear to have much value for government ... reporting of misconduct (see the relevant subsection of my book Local Government Ethics Programs ). Self-Righteousness ...

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

  10. FORUMs in Community building

    ... of the world. For example, in the past, using static html pages, a typical "labor of love" webmaster was forced to create all of ...

    donmc - 2005-07-28 07:04 - 0 comments

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