Inspectors General : duty, authority, integrity /

Inspectors General: Duty, Authority, Integrity examines the firsthand experiences and insights of practitioners who work in an omnipresent yet little understood government watchdog institution, the Office of Inspector General (OIG). OIGs continuously monitor, and ensure accountability of public empl...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kempf, Robin J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley : Emerald Publishing, 2026.
Series:Ethics in practice
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Investigations / Matthew D. Harris and Colin May
  • Chapter 2. Auditing / Lise Valentine
  • Chapter 3. Reports and other written communications from offices of inspector general / Melinda M. Miguel and Francis Marvin Doyal
  • Chapter 4. The relationship between the overseer and the overseen / Robin J. Kempf
  • Chapter 5. Navigating the relationship between the inspector general and the agency head / Glenn Fine
  • Chapter 6. The inspector general concept in historical context: From 1500 b.c.e. to today / Robert Angelo Cerasoli and Neah Downs-Dybas
  • Chapter 7. The evolution of the federal inspector general community: Finding its voice and strengths / Jay N. Lerner
  • Chapter 8. The rise and fall of the United States federal inspectors general: Will they be phoenixes rising? / Stuart C. Gilman
  • Chapter 9. Impossible mission? A good-government nonprofit's quest to create a delaware office of the state inspector general / Nick Wasileski, Katherine S. Ward, and John Kowalko III
  • Chapter 10. Five short years: The formation and destruction of an office of inspector general / Shannon K. Manigault
  • Chapter 11. An inspector general's challenges with obstruction and independence impairments / Harriet Richardson
  • Chapter 12. The importance of independence: Observations from a veteran inspector general / Stephen B. Street, Jr.