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US Executive Branch agency responsible for the oversight of the federal executive branch administrative ethics program including the confidential, public financial disclosure and standards of conduct programs.
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In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal (1972–1974), which led directly to the resignation of President Richard Nixon and the criminal convictions of a number of his closest White House aides, Congress passed the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 in an effort to restore public trust in the federal government (Gilman 1995; Roberts 1988; Walter 1981). The Ethics Act embraced much stricter compliance-based ethics regulation as the solution for the restoration of public trust in government. Advocates of compliance-based or rule-driven ethics argue that providing government employee with clear rules governing their conduct is the most effective way to deter...
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Roberts, R.N. (2016). US Office of Government Ethics. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3034-1
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