Government ethics and law enforcement toward global guidelines / edited by Yassin El-Ayouty, Kevin J. Ford, and Mark Davies ; assisted by William P. Carter ; prologue by Rudolph W. Giuliani ; foreword by Maurice E. Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

El-Ayouty, Yassin, 1928-

Ford, Kevin J.

Davies, Mark, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration--Moral and ethical aspects.

Public administration.

Political ethics.

Law enforcement.

Physical Description:

xxi, 323 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.

Summary:

Examines how the principles of ethics and law enforcement can be applied to create more effective and efficient governments.

Contents:

Part I Global Trends in Government Ethics and Law Enforcement

1 Accountability and the Role of Internal Oversight in the United Nations / Karl Theodor Paschke 3

2 Essence of Good Governance in Selected European Countries / Vladimir Petrovsky 21

3 United Nations Involvement in Promoting Government Ethics / Guido Bertucci, Elia Yi Armstrong 27

4 Public Sector Ethics: Work of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development / Bart W. Edes, Janos Bertok 40

5 The Role of Accounting in Good Governance / Anthony Bennett 60

6 Legal and Judicial Reform as a Central Feature of Good Governance: The Case of the Republic of Yemen / Yassin El-Ayouty 78

Part II Government Ethics and Law Enforcement

7 Ethics in Government and the Issue of Conflicts of Interest / Mark Davies 97

8 Ethics Enforcement: The New York City Experience / Joan R. Salzman 123

9 Combating Corruption and Fraud: Some Lessons Learned from the New York City Experience / Kevin J. Ford 139

10 An Approach to Investigating Corruption in Government / Vincent E. Green 161

11 Campaign Financing in New York City: A Decade of Reform / Nicole A. Gordon 188

12 The New York City Department of Investigation: Keeping an Eye out for Fraud in the Procurement of Goods and Services / Vincent E. Green, Steven A. Pasichow 204

13 Corruption in the Criminal Justice System / Charles V. Campisi 223

14 The Role of the Private Law Firm in Fighting Fraud and Corruption / Neil V. Getnick 228

Appendix I Inter-American Convention Against Corruption (Signed in Caracas, Venezuela, on 29 March 1996) 249

Appendix II New York State Temporary State Commission on Local Government Ethics, Final Report, January 1993 (Excerpt) 261

Appendix III The Lima Declaration, International Conference on Anticorruption, Lima, Peru, 7-11 September 1997 283

Appendix IV Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Principles of Corporate Governance 289

Appendix V Annotations to the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance 295.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0275965929

OCLC:

42823699