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Recognizing that the quality of governance is a crucial factor in the overall development of a country, experts on government ethics and law enforcement examine the principles that need to be applied to create more effective and efficient governments. While focusing on the approaches adopted by the City of New York, case studies from around the world are also given.
As the essays make clear, it is difficult to over estimate the importance of authorities to set proper ethical standards and regulations while operating on the basis of transparency, predictability, and accountability. An important resource for scholars, researchers, and policy makers involved with public administration issues.
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Initially, this work does not seem promising because it lacks a real introduction, a summary of findings, substantial conclusions, and a theoretical framework. It contains 14 essays on government ethics and law enforcement, plus five appendixes on international and New York State codes of ethics in the public and corporate sectors. The idea emerged from an International Seminar on Government Ethics and Corruption, sponsored by the New York City Department of Investigation [DOI] and the Conflicts of Interests Board. The contributors are primarily corruption fighters in New York City and city-based international bureaucrats, most of whom have made their careers in the UN. Lest this seem an odd mixture of contributors, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani asserts in the prologue that "... New York City is recognized as the capital of the world." The essays describe in detail how to foster ethical behavior and combat fraud and corruption. The reviewer was particularly struck by Anthony Bennett's argument that the lack of trained accountants is a key impediment to good government in Eastern Europe and Russia and by the descriptions of the work of New York City's DOI. This "how-to" book by committed professionals deals with an issue of extraordinary importance and is recommended for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners. R. E. Hartwig; Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Table des matières
Prologue | p. xi |
Foreword | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Abbreviations | p. xix |
Part I Global Trends in Government Ethics and Law Enforcement | |
1 Accountability and the Role of Internal Oversight in the United Nations | p. 3 |
2 Essence of Good Governance in Selected European Countries | p. 21 |
3 United Nations Involvement in Promoting Government Ethics | p. 27 |
4 Public Sector Ethics: Work of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development | p. 40 |
5 The Role of Accounting in Good Governance | p. 60 |
6 Legal and Judicial Reform as a Central Feature of Good Governance: The Case of the Republic of Yemen | p. 78 |
Part II Government Ethics and Law Enforcement | |
7 Ethics in Government and the Issue of Conflicts of Interest | p. 97 |
8 Ethics Enforcement: The New York City Experience | p. 123 |
9 Combating Corruption and Fraud: Some Lessons Learned from the New York City Experience | p. 139 |
10 An Approach to Investigating Corruption in Government | p. 161 |
11 Campaign Financing in New York City: A Decade of Reform | p. 188 |
12 The New York City Department of Investigation: Keeping an Eye out for Fraud in the Procurement of Goods and Services | p. 204 |
13 Corruption in the Criminal Justice System | p. 223 |
14 The Role of the Private Law Firm in Fighting Fraud and Corruption | p. 228 |
Epilogue | p. 245 |
Appendix I Inter-American Convention Against Corruption (Signed in Caracas, Venezuela, on 29 March 1996) | p. 249 |
Appendix II New York State Temporary State Commission on Local Government Ethics, Final Report, January 1993 (Excerpt) | p. 261 |
Appendix III The Lima Declaration, International Conference on Anticorruption, Lima, Peru, 7-11 September 1997 | p. 283 |
Appendix IV Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Principles of Corporate Governance | p. 289 |
Appendix V Annotations to the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance | p. 295 |
Index | p. 307 |
About the Editors and Contributors | p. 319 |