The Death of Public Integrity
Title | The Death of Public Integrity PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Roberts |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2019-09-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1000586863 |
From the late nineteenth century through the 1970s, several government reform movements succeeded in controlling traditional types of public corruption. But has this historic success led to a false sense of security among public management scholars and professionals? As this book argues, powerful special interests increasingly find effective ways to gain preferential treatment without violating traditional types of public corruption prohibitions. Although the post-Watergate good government reform movement sought to close this gap, the 1980s saw a backlash against public integrity regulation, as the electorate in the United States began to split into two sharply different camps driven by very different moral value imperatives. Taking a historical view from the ratification of the U.S. Constitution through to the Trump administration, The Death of Public Integrity details efforts by reformers to protect public confidence in the integrity of government at the local, state, and federal levels. Arguing that progressives and conservatives increasingly live in different moral worlds, author Robert Roberts demonstrates the ways in which it has become next to impossible to hold public officials accountable without agreement on what constitutes immoral conduct. This book is required reading for students of public administration, public policy, and political science, as well as those interested in public service ethics.
935 Lies
Title | 935 Lies PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Lewis |
Publisher | PublicAffairs |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2014-06-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1610391187 |
Facts are and must be the coin of the realm in a democracy, for government "of the people, by the people and for the people," requires and assumes to some extent an informed citizenry. Unfortunately, for citizens in the United States and throughout the world, distinguishing between fact and fiction has always been a formidable challenge, often with real life and death consequences. But now it is more difficult and confusing than ever. The Internet Age makes comment indistinguishable from fact, and erodes authority. It is liberating but annihilating at the same time. For those wielding power, whether in the private or the public sector, the increasingly sophisticated control of information is regarded as utterly essential to achieving success. Internal information is severely limited, including calendars, memoranda, phone logs and emails. History is sculpted by its absence. Often those in power strictly control the flow of information, corroding and corrupting its content, of course, using newspapers, radio, television and other mass means of communication to carefully consolidate their authority and cover their crimes in a thick veneer of fervent racialism or nationalism. And always with the specter of some kind of imminent public threat, what Hannah Arendt called "objective enemies.'" An epiphanic, public comment about the Bush "war on terror" years was made by an unidentified White House official revealing how information is managed and how the news media and the public itself are regarded by those in power: "[You journalists live] "in what we call the reality-based community. [But] that's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality . . . we're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." And yet, as aggressive as the Republican Bush administration was in attempting to define reality, the subsequent, Democratic Obama administration may be more so. Into the battle for truth steps Charles Lewis, a pioneer of journalistic objectivity. His book looks at the various ways in which truth can be manipulated and distorted by governments, corporations, even lone individuals. He shows how truth is often distorted or diminished by delay: truth in time can save terrible erroneous choices. In part a history of communication in America, a cri de coeur for the principles and practice of objective reporting, and a journey into several notably labyrinths of deception, 935 Lies is a valorous search for honesty in an age of casual, sometimes malevolent distortion of the facts.
From Watergate to Whitewater
Title | From Watergate to Whitewater PDF eBook |
Author | Marion T. Doss |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1997-09-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0313024081 |
The two decades since the Watergate scandal have seen an unprecedented focus on ethics in government. The public integrity scandals of the Clinton administration have, once again, focused national attention on ethics in Washington. This work addresses this very topical subject and the authors come to some unusual conclusions. Tracing the origins of the modern public integrity war back to the very birth of the nation, the authors explain how conservatives and progressives have used allegations of unethical conduct in an effort to persuade the American public to accept their respective visions for American society. A cynical public, anesthetized to the distinction between actual wrongdoing and partisan attack, follows ideology and self-interest rather than character, allowing politicians to get away with even the most egregious conduct.
Integrity Counts
Title | Integrity Counts PDF eBook |
Author | Brad Raffensperger |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 121 |
Release | 2021-11-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1637630336 |
Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger recounts his defense of the results of the 2020 presidential election in his state and the surrounding events, as well as discussion of events following the 2018 race for governor of Georgia.
OECD Public Integrity Handbook
Title | OECD Public Integrity Handbook PDF eBook |
Author | OECD |
Publisher | OECD Publishing |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2020-05-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9264536175 |
The OECD Public Integrity Handbook provides guidance to government, business and civil society on implementing the OECD Recommendation on Public Integrity. The Handbook clarifies what the Recommendation’s thirteen principles mean in practice and identifies challenges in implementing them.
Ethics for the Public Service Professional
Title | Ethics for the Public Service Professional PDF eBook |
Author | Aric W. Dutelle |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2011-03-22 |
Genre | House & Home |
ISBN | 1439891184 |
Public service professionals government officials, those in the legal system, first responders, and investigators confront ethical issues every day. In an environment where each decision can mean the difference between life and death or freedom and imprisonment, deciding on an ethical course of action can pose challenges to even the most season
Oversight of Department of Justice, Public Integrity Section
Title | Oversight of Department of Justice, Public Integrity Section PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Government publications |
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