Download or read book Conflict of Interest and the Revolving Door written by Frederick G. Fox and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense routinely finds itself coming under Congressional and public scrutiny over the revolving door, especially in relation to defense acquisition and procurement. In spite of legislation and top level emphasis, accusations of conflict of interest stemming from this issue have increased public cynicism over the ability of American society to keep government clean. It is for this reason that an examination of the conflict of interest issue, especially as it relates to the revolving door, is relevant. There have been many laws placed on the books to address ethics in elected and non-elected officials accountable to the public as discretionary government increased. However, there are costs to more stringent controls and additional ethics in government laws. The question is can we reach a point of diminishing returns as additional constraints are put in place? If that is the case, and the revolving door is one such constraint, closing or even slowing the door may not necessarily produce better government in the long run. I believe that in our governmental system, the revolving door is crucial in facilitating the transition of power from one administration to the next. the involvement of American citizens as temporary public servants strengthens self-governance, and even more important, democracy itself.
Download or read book Revolving Door Laws written by Peggy Kerns and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conflict of Interest and the Revolving Door written by Frederick G. Fox and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense routinely finds itself coming under Congressional and public scrutiny over the revolving door, especially in relation to defense acquisition and procurement. In spite of legislation and top level emphasis, accusations of conflict of interest stemming from this issue have increased public cynicism over the ability of American society to keep government clean. It is for this reason that an examination of the conflict of interest issue, especially as it relates to the revolving door, is relevant. There have been many laws placed on the books to address ethics in elected and non-elected officials accountable to the public as discretionary government increased. However, there are costs to more stringent controls and additional ethics in government laws. The question is can we reach a point of diminishing returns as additional constraints are put in place? If that is the case, and the revolving door is one such constraint, closing or even slowing the door may not necessarily produce better government in the long run. I believe that in our governmental system, the revolving door is crucial in facilitating the transition of power from one administration to the next. the involvement of American citizens as temporary public servants strengthens self-governance, and even more important, democracy itself.
Download or read book Potential Conflict of Interest revolving Door Problems at DOD written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Potential Conflict of Interest revolving Door Problems at DOD written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Revolving Door Are Our Ethics Showing written by Michael A. Cravens and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study attempts to establish if a conflict of interest exists for Department of Defense officers who leave DOD and take jobs with the defense industry. The term Revolving Door is used by Congress and the media to describe their concern that former DOD officers have obtained personal gain as a result of their previous government positions. The study identifies the population susceptible to the Revolving Door's potential for conflict of interest, what standards of conduct they must comply with to avoid conflict of interest, what variances, if any exist to those standards. The study concludes no wholesale conflict of interest can be established solely because former DOD officers accept employment with defense industry. However, improprieties in post-DOD employment reporting give rise to an appearance of conflict. The author recommends DOD emphasize education of individual responsibility for compliance and pursue penalty for clear violations.
Download or read book Potential Conflict of Interest revolving Door Problems at DOD written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Revolving Door written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Service OECD Guidelines and Country Experiences written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OECD Guidelines for Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Service provide the first international benchmark in this field. This report highlights trends, approaches and models across OECD countries in a comparative overview that also presents examples of innovative and recent solutions.
Download or read book Conflict of Interest in Global Public and Corporate Governance written by Anne Peters and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict of interest occurs at all levels of governance, ranging from local to global, both in the public and the corporate and financial spheres. There is increasing awareness that conflicts of interest may distort decision-making processes and generate inappropriate outcomes, thereby undermining the functioning of public institutions and markets. However, the current worldwide trend towards regulation, which seeks to forestall, prevent and manage conflicts of interest, has its price. Drawbacks may include the stifling of decision-making processes, the loss of expertise among decision-makers and a vicious circle of distrust. This interdisciplinary and international book addresses specific situations of conflict of interest in different spheres of governance, particularly in global, public and corporate governance.
Download or read book Preventing Regulatory Capture written by Daniel Carpenter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars from across the social sciences present empirical evidence that the obstacle of regulatory capture is more surmountable than previously thought.
Download or read book Revolving Door Lobbying written by Timothy LaPira and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades Washington has seen an alarming rise in the number of "revolving door lobbyists"—politicians and officials cashing in on their government experience to become influence peddlers on K Street. These lobbyists, popular wisdom suggests, sell access to the highest bidder. Revolving Door Lobbying tells a different, more nuanced story. As an insider interviewed in the book observes, where the general public has the "impression that lobbyists actually get things done, I would say 90 percent of what lobbyists do is prevent harm to their client from the government." Drawing on extensive new data on lobbyists’ biographies and interviews with dozens of experts, authors Timothy M. LaPira and Herschel F. Thomas establish the facts of the revolving door phenomenon—facts that suggest that, contrary to widespread assumptions about insider access, special interests hire these lobbyists as political insurance against an increasingly dysfunctional, unpredictable government. With their insider experience, revolving door lobbyists offer insight into the political process, irrespective of their connections to current policymakers. What they provide to their clients is useful and marketable political risk-reduction. Exploring this claim, LaPira and Thomas present a systematic analysis of who revolving door lobbyists are, how they differ from other lobbyists, what interests they represent, and how they seek to influence public policy. The first book to marshal comprehensive evidence of revolving door lobbying, LaPira and Thomas revise the notion that lobbyists are inherently and institutionally corrupt. Rather, the authors draw a complex and sobering picture of the revolving door as a consequence of the eroding capacity of government to solve the public’s problems.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks written by Jennifer Nicoll Victor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 1011 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics is intuitively about relationships, but until recently the network perspective has not been a dominant part of the methodological paradigm that political scientists use to study politics. This volume is a foundational statement about networks in the study of politics.
Download or read book Post employment Conflicts of Interest written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Town written by Mark Leibovich and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller! Washington D.C. might be loathed from every corner of the nation, yet these are fun and busy days at this nexus of big politics, big money, big media, and big vanity. There are no Democrats and Republicans anymore in the nation's capital, just millionaires. Through the eyes of Leibovich we discover how the funeral for a beloved newsman becomes the social event of the year; how political reporters are fetishized for their ability to get their names into the predawn e-mail sent out by the city's most powerful and puzzled-over journalist; how a disgraced Hill aide can overcome ignominy and maybe emerge with a more potent "brand" than many elected members of Congress. And how an administration bent on "changing Washington" can be sucked into the ways of This Town with the same ease with which Tea Party insurgents can, once elected, settle into it like a warm bath. Outrageous, fascinating, and very necessary, This Town is a must-read whether you're inside the highway which encircles DC - or just trying to get there.
Download or read book Revolving Door H R 272 Defense Production Act Amendments of 1985 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and Critical Materials and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revolving Door Issues and Post employment Restrictions written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
