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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1254 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980
ISBN : MINN:31951002877446W
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980
ISBN : PURD:32754078044603
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119542541
Author : George Cheny Pratt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005949719
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980
ISBN : OCLC:7833555
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980
ISBN : OCLC:7793201
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980
ISBN : IND:30000090702402
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980
ISBN : UCR:31210019443025
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980
ISBN : OCLC:7833555
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980
ISBN : SRLF:A0000098251
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Housing for the Elderly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Housing
ISBN : IND:30000090840830
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Government publications
ISBN : WISC:89117116806
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCBK:C109481102
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980
ISBN : OCLC:7833555
Author : Dennis F. Thompson
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815722977
More members of Congress have been investigated and sanctioned for ethical misconduct in the past decade and a half than in the entire previous history of the institution. But individual members are probably less corrupt than they once were. Stricter ethics codes and closer scrutiny by the press and public have imposed standards no previous representatives have had to face. Dennis Thompson shows how the institution itself is posing new ethical challenges, how the complexity of the environment in which members work creates new occasions for corruption and invites more calls for accountability. Instead of the individual corruption that has long been the center of attention, Thompson focuses on institutional corruption which refers to conduct that under certain conditions is an acceptable part of the job of a representative. Members are required to solicit campaign contributions, and they are expected to help constituents with their problems with government, but some ways of doing these jobs give rise to institutional corruption. The author moves the discussion beyond bribery, extortion, and simple personal gain to delve into implicit understandings, ambiguous favors, and political advantage. Thompson examines many major ethics cases of recent years. Among them: the case of David Durenberger, accused of supplementing his income through book promotions; the case of the Keating Five, accused of using undue influence with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board on behalf of Lincoln Savings and Loan owner Charles Keating; and the case of House Speaker James Wright, accused of several offenses. Thompson shows why neither the electoral process nor the judicial process is sufficient and argues for stronger ethics committees and the creation of a new quasi-independent body to take over some of the enforcement process. He offers more than a dozen recommendations for changes in the procedures and practices of ethics in Congress. The book features a listi