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Canada's Upside-Down World of Public-Sector Ethics

Public Ethics and Governance: Standards and Practices in Comparative Perspective

ISBN: 978-0-76231-226-9, eISBN: 978-1-84950-355-6

Publication date: 4 April 2006

Abstract

Canada's institutions, by comparison with America's, have created a unique normative regime. When it comes to conflict of interest, the main problem in Canada has not been that private interests encumber governmental judgment, but that government itself, and in particular the publicly sourced emoluments controlled by the prime minister, can encumber the judgment of ministers and legislators. When it comes to campaign finance law, the problem is that parties are treated as if they are self-interested entities, while interest groups have often been treated as if they are parties. I explore the institutional causes and regulatory consequences of Canada's unique normative approach.

Citation

Stark, A. (2006), "Canada's Upside-Down World of Public-Sector Ethics", Saint-Martin, D. and Thompson, F. (Ed.) Public Ethics and Governance: Standards and Practices in Comparative Perspective (Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 14), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 109-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0732-1317(05)14007-X

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