Legislative Ethics and Codes of Conduct

• Main Authors: Stapenhurst, Rick, Pelizzo, Riccardo
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
• Subjects: Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/37; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1036/viewcontent/ethics.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The purpose of this paper is to discuss why and how ethics reforms have been enacted by many parliaments in the course of the past decade. Our argument is fairly straightforward. Politicians’ perceived irresponsiveness, various forms of misconduct and corruption scandals have eroded voters’ trust in...