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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Getting the Government America Deserves
    sub title: How Ethics Reform Can Make a Difference
  name:
    name part: Richard W Painter.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Electronic resource.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    publisher: Oxford Scholarship Online
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (328)
  abstract: In order to be effective, federal ethics law must address sources of systematic corruption rather than simply address motives that individual government employees might have to betray the public trust (such as personal financial holdings or family relationships). Getting the Government America Deserves articulates a general approach to combating systemic corruption as well as some specific proposals for doing so. Federal ethics law is relatively unknown in legal academia and elsewhere outside of Washington, D.C., but it is binding on over one million federal employees. Lobbyists, federal contractors, lawyers and others who interact with the federal government are also deeply interested in federal ethics law and represent a surprisingly large market for a little-studied area of the law. Getting the Government America Deserves analyzes government ethics law from the perspective of an academic critic and that of a lawyer who was the chief White House ethics lawyer for two and a half years. Richard Painter argues that the existing ethics regime is in need of substantial reform since federal ethics laws fail to curtail conduct that undermines the integrity of government, such as political activity by federal employees and their interaction with lobbyists and interest groups. He also contends that in some other areas, such as personal financial conflicts of interest, there is too much complexity in regulatory and reporting requirements, and rules need to be simplified. Painter's solution includes strengthening the enforcement of ethics rules, reforming the lobbying industry, and changing a system of campaign finance that impedes meaningful government ethics reform.
  table of contents: Cover13; -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Fiduciary Principle in Private and Public Law -- 2 The Executive Branch: Ethics Rules That Work When We Need Them, Rules That Dont Work, Rules That We Do Not Need, and Rules We Need but Dont Have -- 3 Implementation and Enforcement of Ethics Rules in the Executive Branch: How Big Are the Gaps in the System? -- 4 Outsourcing Executive Branch Functions and Its Ethical Consequences -- 5 When Lawyers Work for the Government -- 6 Legislative Branch Ethics Reform: More Stringency or More Hypocrisy? -- 7 When Ethics Law and Other Law Intersect: Insider Trading, Taxes, and Financial Conflicts of Interest -- 8 Bagmen in Black Tie or Professional Intermediaries: The Growth of Lobbying and Prospects for Reform -- 9 Off -the-Books Lobbying, Electioneering, and the Special Purpose Entities That Do It -- 10 The Official White House Office of Political Affairs, the Unofficial Office of Political Affairs, and Personal Capacity Political Activity by Government Officials -- 11 Campaign Finance: The Elephant and Donkey in the Room -- Epilogue: Observations from a Short Stay in Washington -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Political ethics
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Morale politique
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: LAW
  subject:
    topic: Courts
  subject:
    topic: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
  subject:
    topic: Political ethics
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: KF4568
  classification: 172.20973
  identifier: 1282730800
  identifier: 9781282730809
  identifier: 9780199869619
  identifier: 0199869618
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: IDEBK
    record creation date: 101115
    record change date: 20260318184930.6
    record identifier: in00005706596
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng