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1. Why Are Council and School Board Seats Incompatible?

   ... incompatible offices, see the section on the topic in my book Local Government Ethics Programs. Robert Wechsler Director of ...

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

2. F. G. Bailey's The Prevalence of Deceit

   ... is that I had just finished F. G. Bailey's book The Prevalence of Deceit (Cornell, 1991). The book is about the close connection between deceit and power. Bailey pictures ... Ethics is central to basic lies. Bailey concluded his book by saying, "Politicians, who are by definition contestants to make one or ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 1 comment

3. City Ethics Publications

   ... The Regulation of Local Lobbying. The first book on the subject of local government lobbying is now available. By Robert ... edition of this free, comprehensive digital resource book for ethics commission members, ethics reformers, local government ...

   donmc - 2018-12-23 17:59

4. Ethics in Congress I - Institutional Corruption (Summer Reading)

   ... to Institutional Corruption (1995). Despite the book's title, Thompson (a professor at Harvard) has a great deal to say ... city and county legislators. The central thesis of the book (but far from its only fresh and valuable idea) is that the government ...

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

5. Interesting Ethics Issues in Santa Fe

   ... conference, which led to the publication of a "coffee-table book" on the subject, at a total cost to taxpayers of "well over half a ... herself by saying that "no one has made any money off the book. Doing a book as a support to the conference is totally legitimate." And ...

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

6. A City Land Sale That Requires a Broader Investigation

   ... the criminal paradigm, see the relevant section of my book Local Government Ethics Programs . Robert Wechsler Director of ...

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

7. Winter Reading: Robert Dahl's "Who Governs?"

   ... I just finished reading the classic political science book Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City by Robert A. ... I did take an Urban Politics course forty years ago. The book happens to focus on New Haven, the city in whose suburbs I live and whose ...

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

8. Institutional Corruption Conference I: Duplicitous Exclusion

   ... co-author of Blind Spots (see my blog posts on this book ) and a member of the second panel of the conference, would likely argue ...

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

9. Blind Spots VIII — How to Handle Our Blind Spots

   ... H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel, the authors of the new book Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It ... ways of dealing with the many problems they raise in their book. One solution is to align what they call our "want" and "should" ...

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

10. Albert Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty

    ... I want to apply some of the ideas from his most famous book, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970), to local government ethics ( ... I pulled out a few thought-provoking passages from his 1983 book, Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action ). ...

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

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