In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10930, the first step in a long series of efforts to regulate the ethical behaviour of US executive branch officials. A few years later, Lyndon B. Johnson required all senior officials to report assets and sources of non-government income to the Civil Service Commission. The reaction to Watergate opened the floodgates to more laws and rules: the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, subsequent expansions of that act in the 1980s and 1990s and sweeping executive orders by Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. The consequence of these aggressive efforts to scandal proof the federal government is a heavy accumulation of law and regulation administered by agencies employing hundreds of people and spending millions of dollars every year. Ethics regulation has been one of the steady growth sectors in the federal government for decades. This text explores the process that led to the contemporary state of ethics regulation in the federal executive branch. It assesses whether efforts to scandal proof the federal government have been successful, what they have cost and whether reforms should be considered.
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G. Calvin Mackenzie is the Goldfarb Distinguished Professor of American Government at Colby College and an adviser to the Brookings’ Presidential Appointee Initiative.
Michael Hafken is a research analyst at the Brookings Institution.
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Written by G. Calvin Mackenzie (Goldfarb Family Distinguished Professor of American Government at Colby College and an Adviser to the Brookings Presidential Appointee Initiative) with the assistance of Michael Hafken (Research Analyst at the Brookings Institution), Scandal Proof: Do Ethics Laws Make Government Ethical? offers an insightful analysis of the laws designed to regulate the ethical behavior of the federal government from 1961 (when President Kennedy signed Executive Order 10930), down to modern-day executive orders by Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. These efforts to "scandal-proof" government have been costly to finance in terms of taxpayer dollars, yet they have they been successful? Examining their real impact on how things are done, and presenting the question of whether there are better ways to bring more honesty to Washington government, Scandal Proof is a thoughtfully written account and highly recommended for students of Ethics and Political Science.
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new ethics regulations, recusal statement, presidential recruiting, agency ethics official, public disclosure forms, public financial disclosure, outside earned income, government integrity, presidential appointments process, government ethics, financial disclosure forms, executive branch employees, ethics officials, ethics act, financial disclosure requirements, presidential personnel, former government employees, ethics policy, independent counsel investigations, presidential appointees, public integrity, ethics policies, ethics violations, federal executive branch, former agencies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
White House, Office of Government Ethics, Government Act, United States, Public Integrity Section, World War, Office of Personnel Management, Civil War, New York, President Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Defense Department, Department of Justice, Government Printing Office, Air Force, Congressional Quarterly, Federal Communications Commission, Internal Revenue Service, Merit Systems Protection Board, President Carter, President Jimmy Carter, President Reagan, Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, Standard Form, Supreme Court New!
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- Innocent Until Nominated: The Breakdown of the Presidential Appointments Process by G. Calvin MacKenzie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective (Studies in Crime and Justice) by Frank Anechiarico in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics by Sabato in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir by Terrel H. Bell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- From Watergate to Whitewater: The Public Integrity War by Marion T. Doss in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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