Download or read book Public Officials Integrity Act of 1977 Blind Trusts and Other Conflict of Interest Matters written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Public Officials Integrity Act of 1977 Blind Trusts and Other Conflict of Interest Matters written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Officials Integrity Act of 1977 Blind Trusts and Other Conflict of Interest Matters written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shortsightedness of Blind Trusts written by Megan J. Ballard and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article presents an analysis of problems plaguing government officials' use of blind trusts as a conflict of interest avoidance measure, and proposes changes to strengthen the device. In theory, a blind trust allows an independent trustee to manage a government official's wealth, without the official knowing the identity of his or her assets. Unaware of their exact financial holdings, policy makers can render impartial decisions on matters that may affect their economic welfare. Blind trusts, however, do not always prevent public officials from knowing what assets they own. The federal statutory scheme governing blind trusts does not include sufficient incentives to avert the flow of information from trustees to policy makers. Because of this flaw, blind trusts can mislead the public into believing that decision makers are acting without knowledge of their financial affairs, when they may not be doing so. A blind trust that conceals a conflict of interest from public oversight undermines the transparency essential to democratic governance. This article recommends specific amendments to strengthen qualified blind trust rules so that the device can deter financial conflicts of interest and enhance public confidence in the integrity of official decision-making.
Download or read book Review of Current Information in the Treasury Department Library written by United States. Department of the Treasury. Library and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Download or read book Nomination of Charlene Barshefsky written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prosecuting the President written by Andrew Coan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book provides a] history of special prosecutors in American politics. For more than a century, special prosecutors have struck fear into the hearts of presidents, who have the power to fire them at any time. How could this be, [the author] asks? And how could the nation entrust such a high responsibility to such subordinate officials? [The author] demonstrates that special prosecutors can do much to protect the rule of law under the right circumstances. Many have been thwarted by the formidable challenges of investigating a sitting president and his close associates; a few have abused the powers entrusted to them. But at their best, special prosecutors function as catalysts of democracy, channeling an unfocused popular will to safeguard the rule of law. By raising the visibility of high-level misconduct, they enable the American people to hold the president accountable. Yet, if a president thinks he can fire a special prosecutor without incurring serious political damage, he has the power to do so. Ultimately, [the author] concludes, only the American people can decide whether the President is above the law."--
Download or read book The Special Prosecutor in American Politics written by Katy Jean Harriger and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal special prosecutor: unprincipled abuser of power or staunch defender of the law? As Katy Harriger shows, the special prosecutor was a hotly debated and controversial subject throughout much of its existence. This was especially true, she argues, during the lengthy, expensive, and highly-politicized investigations of Lawrence Walsh and Kenneth Starr into allegations concerning Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Harriger offers the most complete assessment available of the use of special prosecutors in the post-Watergate era. She analyzes the independent counsel's role within the framework of the separation of powers, explaining how each has interacted with other key players in the political and legal system and showing how those relationships have affected the prosecutor's ability to conduct investigations. Harriger's previous edition focused on the legacy of Watergate but was published before Walsh's Iran-Contra investigations were concluded. Her new study adds substantially more information on Iran-Contra, provides a clearheaded appraisal of Starr's sensationalized Whitewater-Lewinsky investigations, examines a number of senior-level cabinet probes, and critiques and clarifies the role of Attorney General Janet Reno in these latter matters. A completely new chapter compares Iran-Contra and Whitewater-Lewinsky to explore the limits of the law in the special prosecutor's efforts. In this new edition, Harriger includes 20 new interviews with Washington insiders-including one with Kenneth Starr-and covers the debates that led to both the reauthorization of the independent counsel statute in 1994 and its demise in 1999. She then examines the pros and cons of the office and offers constructive suggestions for improvement should it be revived. For students, scholars, and concerned citizens, her book takes us well beyond frenzied media hype and partisan politics to provide a timely reminder about the crucial role of separation of powers in our system of governance.
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 Financial Disclosure Act 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 1977 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Independent Counsel written by Charles Johnson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors analyze the origins, evolution, functions and dissolution of the office of the independent counsel, created in the late-1970s to investigate and prosecute alleged executive misconduct in the federal government. They provide an overview of how executive misconduct was handled in the 18th, 19th and early-20th centuries, and then review the Watergate investigations which led to passage of the first independent counsel law in 1978. A summary of each of the 20 independent counsel investigations is followed by a chapter on the dissolution of the law in 1999, regulations which replaced the expired law, and possible ways to handle future alleged executive misconduct.
Download or read book Public Duty and Private Interest written by Australia. Committee of Inquiry Concerning Public Duty and Private Interest and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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