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 5: Misconduct

Unit 5 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 misconduct?

  2. What is the most common form of misconduct?

  3. What is a conflict of interest?

  4. What are the key differences between direct and indirect interests?

  5. What activities may have to be regulated and/or restricted to prevent conflicts of interest from emerging?


    • Does dual office holding necessarily create a conflict of interests?

 

Select Bibliography

Joseph Zimmerman, Curbing Unethical Behavior in Government, Westport, Greenwood, 1994, chapters 2, 3 and 9.

 

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