Accountability and Corruption: Public Sector Ethics

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Author: Gordon L Clark

Number of Pages: 224

‘I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of intersts.’ Aneuran Bevin ‘The Australians appear to a man to regard their politicians as time-serving crooks or simple-minded hirelings.’ Jim Cameron Why have our political institutions failed to live up to our high expectations? Why do we need inquiries into the conduct of state and federal agencies such as the police and departments of education and elected officials, including state premiers and federal senators? In Accountability and Corruption politicians and political analysts draw on their first-hand experience to explore the tensions between political power and ethical ideals. Each is thoroughly conversant with the realities of political life and draws the reader into the world of political action to demonstrate the difficulties faced in sustaining ethical practice in public service. Their findings will inform and challenge citizens to understand better why the role of ethics in maintaining a workable political system is becoming increasingly an issue in our contemporary pluralist society. ‘Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office, a rottenness begins in his conduct.’ Thomas Jefferson ‘There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.’ Lord Acton