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Being Wrong I (Summer Reading)
... of government ethics violations. Kathryn Schulz's excellent book, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (2010), ... Robert Wechsler's blog Story Topics: Book Reviews Ethics Environments ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Lucifer Effect I — A Situational Approach to Local Government Ethics
... A year and a half ago, I wrote a blog post about a 2007 book by Philip Zimbardo, entitled The Lucifer Effect . I had read about Zimbardo's book in another book, Susan Neiman's Moral Clarity . I finally got ...
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A City Attorney Providing Ethics Advice in a Big City Is Indefensible
... blog post , and at length in a section of my free book Local Government Ethics Programs , city attorneys should not be ...
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Arguments Against Having City or County Attorney as Ethics Officer
... and more (for more reasons, see the relevant section of my book Local Government Ethics Programs ). What is unusual here is that ...
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The Value of Applicant Disclosure
... on this topic, see the Applicant Disclosure section of my book . Robert Wechsler Director of Research-Retired, City Ethics ...
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The Extent of Disclosure Necessary to Obtain Ethics Advice
... by a requirement to seek advice, which I advocate in my book Local Government Ethics Programs. If the council member had a ...
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The Lucifer Effect III — Debriefing and Other Ways to Deal with Situational Forces
... Body: This third blog post on Philip Zimbardo's book The Lucifer Effect looks at some ways to deal with situational ... Acting at the System Level In my first post on this book , I referred to the possibility of an ethics commission treating the ...
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Lewis Hyde's New Observations on Civic Virtue, Mixing Values, and the Freedom to Listen
... Body: Two years ago, I wrote a blog post about a book by Lewis Hyde entitled The Gift , which had a lot to say, ... relevance to government ethics. I just finished Hyde's book Common As Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership , which just came out ...
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Winter Reading: The Ethics of Lobbying
... lobbying that I'm working on, I just finished reading a 2002 book entitled The Ethics of Lobbying from the Woodstock Theological ... of which are relevant at the local level, as well. The book is the result of a multi-year project, which included interviews ...
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Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
... more on waiver processes, see the relevant section of my book Local Government Ethics Programs. There is another ...
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