Acknowledgments Introduction I Conflict 1. The Perils of Prophylactic Law 2. The Topography of Conflict 3. Self-Dealing 4. Undue Influence 5. Abuse of Office 6. Private Payment for Public Acts 7. Private Gain from Public Office 8. The Revolving Door: I 9. The Revolving Door: II Summary II Interest 10. Interest, Bias, and Ideology 11. Limousine Liberals, Country-Club Conservatives 12. On Character in American Politics 13. Self-Generated versus Other-Imposed Encumbrances on Judgment 14. Quid Pro Quo and Campaign Finance 15. Spousal Interests 16. Combination of Roles and Ex Parte Contacts 17. Hold the Interest, Vary the Role 18. De Minimis Summary III Appearances 19. The Meaning of "The Appearance of Official Impropriety" 20. The Legalistic Attack on the Appearance Standard 21. The Political Justification for the Appearance Standard IV Remedies 22. Recusal, Divestiture, Balance, and Disclosure 23. What Is a Balanced Committee? 24. Disclosure and Its Discontents Conclusion Notes Index
An arrestingly original interpretation of conflict of interest. Stark earns his theory the hard way, the right way: he immerses himself in legal decisions, political conflicts, bureaucratic policy memos, you name it. Working from the ground up, he offers an elegant structure full of novel and mischievous insights. The book belongs on the shelves of lawyers, politicians, and journalists--it represents a powerful new way of working on ethics and policy. -- Don Herzog, University of Michigan Law School Government officials are rightly held to high ethical standards because of their visibility, and hence their potential for teaching good or bad lessons about morality. Andrew Stark's book makes an important contribution to our thinking through the ethical issues at stake in crafting judgments and policies in this area. -- Steven Kelman, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Andrew Stark is Professor of Strategic Management and Political Science, University of Toronto.
An arrestingly original interpretation of conflict of interest.
Stark earns his theory the hard way, the right way: he immerses
himself in legal decisions, political conflicts, bureaucratic
policy memos, you name it. Working from the ground up, he offers an
elegant structure full of novel and mischievous insights. The book
belongs on the shelves of lawyers, politicians, and journalists--it
represents a powerful new way of working on ethics and policy.
*Don Herzog, University of Michigan Law School*
Stark brings back to our attention a host of Presidential advisers,
Cabinet officers and lawmakers who have been accused of, or forced
to resign over, conflict of interest...Stark does not sit in
judgment on particular individuals; instead, he exposes the laws
and particular cases to remorseless and clever reformulation and
reinterpretation. In so doing, he highlights the contradictions and
inconsistencies of prosecutors and defendants, and those of critics
and champions of regulation. The result is provocative and always
stimulating.
*Times Literary Supplement*
[This book is] perfectly poised to benefit from the country's
cresting wave of conflict-of-interest outrage...The scandal of
'conflict of interest' as a moral notion, Stark recognizes, is that
it's poorly named. All of us have interests that conflict. It's not
logical or psychological conflict among them that we seek to
eliminate in public officials and umpires. It's decision-making
according to inappropriate criteria.
*Chronicle of Higher Education*
[Stark] argues that conflicts of interest, real or imagined, are
rife these days because of a combination of 'legal liberalism' and
'political liberalism'...[He] probes such matters with great care
and thoughtfulness. His prose is superbly readable, his analysis
relentless...Among other things, he offers the reader the wry
pleasure of watching all the tools of Oxford philosophy deployed to
decipher a legal regime designed to prevent abuses by Chicago ward
heelers and Washington lobbyists.
*Wall Street Journal*
Government officials are rightly held to high ethical standards
because of their visibility, and hence their potential for teaching
good or bad lessons about morality. Andrew Stark's book makes an
important contribution to our thinking through the ethical issues
at stake in crafting judgments and policies in this area.
*Steven Kelman, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University*
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