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 6: Regulation and Conflicts of Interest
 

Unit 6 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. Why are legislators particularly exposed to having conflicts of interest?

  2. What can legislatures do to prevent their members from having conflicts of interest?

  3. What activities may be regulated or restricted by codes of conduct?

  4. Does the disclosure of interests represent a protection against conflicts of interest?

 

Relevant Internet Resources

Inter-Parliamentary Union
www.ipu.org

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.

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

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