Description
Book SynopsisThis is an analysis of the revolution of the last two decades that has built an extensive new regulatory apparatus governing British public ethics. The book sets the new machinery in the wider institutional framework of British government. Its main purpose is to understand the dilemmas of regulatory design that have emerged in each area examined.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Regulating public ethics in the United Kingdom
1. Building integrity machinery: the origins
2. Building integrity machinery: the Committee on Standards in Public Life
3. The House of Commons: the slow erosion of self-regulation
4. IPSA: the costs and benefits of external regulation
5. Reluctant reform in the House of Lords
6. Regulating ethics at the centre: the Ministerial Code
7. Whitehall Wars: keeping politics out of the civil service
8. Revolving doors and regulated afterlives: post-employment for ministers and civil servants
9. Getting to grips with lobbies: regulated office-holders, unregulated lobbies
10. The Electoral Commission and party funding
11. Regulation of ethics in local government
12. Regulation beyond the centre: ethics in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast
Conclusion: Standards, office-holders and public opinion: higher standards, lower credibility?
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