<p>CITY ETHICS is a non-profit organization formed in 2000. Its purpose is to provide a centralized location for information and resources for all forms of local government ethics programs. City Ethics was started by attorney and former federal prosecutor Carla Miller and her husband, Don McClintock, who has a long career in the technology sector.<br />
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The idea for City Ethics was "hatched" at the 2000 national conference of COGEL, the <b>Council on Governmental Ethics Laws</b>.

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<p>Most books of relevance to local government ethics deal with administrative ethics, that is, the ethical behavior of government administrators, rather than with conflicts or government ethics programs. However, they do deal partially with government ethics, and it is valuable to see how government ethics fits in the larger context of administrative ethics. Most of the books on government ethics deal primarily with the federal and state levels; the ones that focus on local government are either old or international.</p>

<p>According to <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nys-senate-leader-dean-skelos-…; target="_blank">an article in today's New York <i>Daily News</i></a>, an investigation by the U. S.

<h3>Mixing Election Oversight and Professional Contracts</h3>

<p>I just read a classic work of philosophical psychology, <em><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=oX0taPXw9CwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=f…; target="”_blank”">Self-Deception</a> </em>(Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969), wherein Herbert Fingarette takes an interesting approach to a phenom

<p>This is the fourth of four blog posts on Zephyr Teachout's excellent new book, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=dctwBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=one…; target="”_blank”"><em>Corruption in America</em></a>: <em>From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United</em> (Harvard Univ. Press).<br />
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<p>This is the third of four blog posts on Zephyr Teachout's excellent new book, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=dctwBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=one…; target="”_blank”"><em>Corruption in America</em></a>: <em>From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United</em> (Harvard Univ. Press).<br />
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<p>This is the second of four blog posts on Zephyr Teachout's excellent new book, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=dctwBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=one…; target="”_blank”"><em>Corruption in America</em></a>: <em>From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United</em> (Harvard Univ. Press).<br />
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