Problems with Ethics Provisions That Go Beyond Conflicts of Interest Issues
<b>Update</b> (9/30/09)<br>
I tend to focus a lot on weaknesses of ethics codes, but sometimes
ethics codes go too far. One reason for this is that they are usually
responses to scandals that are criminal in nature, that is, scandals that do not
involve conflicts of interest. Another reason is that most people don't
understand that ethics codes are really conflict of interest codes, not
codes that deal with all of an official's behavior. It's appropriate to