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New York politicians are making life hard for ethical politicians. “Present yourself as ethical,” they are effectively telling them, “and everyone will be harder on you when you don’t live up to expectations. Better to create no expectations at all.”

This isn’t what the government ethics community wants to hear.

Not all municipal ethics problems arise from a municipality. One place where there is a great deal of opportunity for municipal misconduct is the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C. (HUD)

HUD oversees and funds housing authorities across the country. It gets involved, directly and indirectly, in land and development deals and contracts.

One nearly untouchable aspect of government ethics is the role of parties.

This is less a problem in municipalities than at other levels of government, because most municipalities in the U.S. are nonpartisan, although parties still play a role. But many municipalities and, in some states, particularly in the Northeast, all municipalities are still partisan. And most counties are partisan, as well.

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In an upcoming book,<a href="http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_DESCRIPTION.lasso?id=13032"&gt; <i>The Rule of Law and Development,</i></a> Michael Trebilcock and Ron Daniels divide developing countries into three groups (according to an article in last week’s <i>Economist</I>):

An essential problem in many local governments is a lack of transparency. When people do not know what is happening, and access to information is very difficult, democracy is undermined in several ways. Reformers have a difficult time showing what is actually happening or preparing for public meetings and public hearings. Newspapers are dependent on what officials say. Ordinary citizens become indifferent or completely turned off when all news is of the he said-she said variety.

Published on CityEthics.org (http://www.cityethics.org)
A Cure for Transparency Problems: A Model Website and Blog
By Robert Wechsler
Created 2008-03-24 10:38

The following appeared in <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-kuy28feb28,0,3816020.story">a recent op-ed column</a> in the Los Angeles <i>Times</i> by a young doctor, SreyRam Kuy. The issue was a health insurer asking doctors to report patient conditions that might be used to cancel health insurance.

Dan Ariely, an economist at M.I.T., made up a test that is easy to cheat on, in order to see how social situations might affect students’ choices whether to actually cheat or not. As described in his new book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Hidden-Forces-Decisions/dp… Irrational</a></I>, he found that students who had been asked to recall the Ten Commandments did not cheat at all.