Getting the Government America Deserves: How Ethics Reform Can Make a Difference

by Richard W. Painter and Richard W. Painter

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195378717
• ISBN13: 9780195378719
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"