What is essential is that we respond to the existing climate by making more efforts than in the past to be, and to be seen to be, men and women of integrity.

-- Donald H. Oliver


  


Legislative Ethics & Codes of Conduct Unit 4: Terminology: Ethics vs. Conduct

 

Unit 4 Questions

Please answer each of the following questions.  If you are taking this course in a group you may then meet to discuss your answers.

  1. What is a code of conduct and how does it differ from an ethics code?

  2. What are the key functions of ethics codes?

  3. Are codes of conduct also called ethics laws?

 

Select Bibliography

National Democratic Institute, Legislative Ethics: A Comparative Analysis, Legislative Research Paper #4, 1999.

Dr. Andrew Brien (Consultant), A Code of Conduct for Parliamentarians? Research Paper 2, 1998-99, Department of the Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Australia.

Willa Bruce, “Codes of Ethics and Codes of Conduct: Perceived Contribution To the Practice of Ethics in Local Government ”, in Public Integrity Annual, 1996, pp. 23-30.

Ann Florini, “Business and Global Governance: The Growing Role of Corporate Codes of Conduct”, Brookings Review, vol. 21, n. 2, 2003, pp.4-8.

Carol Lewis, “Ethics Codes and Ethics Agencies: Current Practices and Emerging Trends” in H. George Frederickson (ed.), Ethics and Public Administration, New York, Sharpe, pp. 136-157

Dara O’Rourke, “Outsourcing Regulation: Analyzing Nongovernmental Systems of Labor Standards and Monitoring”, The Policy Studies Journal, vol. 31, n. 1, 2003, pp. 1-29.

Jeremy Plant, “Codes of Ethics”, in T. Cooper, Handbook of Administrative Ethics, New York, Marcel Dekker, 1994.

Joseph Zimmerman, Curbing Unethical Behavior in Government, Westport, Greenwood, 1994.

 

 

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